Electronic mail
Aug 3
Pricey Editor,
I take pleasure in going to the seaside always of the yr – to not solar myself however to sit down within the shade and admire the views and to take a stroll alongside the sands. It’s notably refreshing in the intervening time with the ridiculously excessive temperatures to catch the ocean breeze and sit beneath an umbrella, holding cool with out having to plug in {an electrical} machine.
Nevertheless, I’ve been leaving the seaside feeling saddened and even depressed in current occasions.
Why? It’s due to the garbage which pathetic, disgusting individuals depart of their wake. I arrange my chair yesterday to search out it was surrounded by cigarette butts. I often attempt to choose just a few each time I’m going, however I needed to spend 5 minutes clearing a small space. I collected within the area of 200 in 5 minutes from an space spanning round 10 sq. metres.
What kind of individuals do that? I hate to make use of the phrase ‘scum’ as a result of it is vitally condescending and has elitist connotations, however to litter a spot of pure magnificence figuring out that these butts might find yourself within the sea – it reveals a stage of selfishness which I discover deeply disturbing.
I additionally prefer to go for a paddle, typically a swim. Each time I’ve achieved this in current weeks I’ve needed to fish out plastic – baggage, cups, bottles, and so on. Folks have been really swimming subsequent to this garbage and simply ignoring it.
I learn in your paper final week concerning the turtle who laid its eggs and in addition the one who was rescued after being caught up within the plastic netting. It made me wish to weep seeing this garbage within the sea, with individuals turning a blind eye and considering that it could possibly be ingested by an endangered turtle or different marine life.
No marvel they’re endangered, Mr Jones! How can they not be endangered when the human race is made up of such a proliferation of egotistical idiots who solely consider themselves and their very own lives.
I’m sorry to harp on however it makes me so indignant. We’ve got such an exquisite planet and the one factor that makes it much less so is us – people. And a few individuals consider that God created man in his personal picture.
Nicely, all I can say is that once they floated the ark, all the opposite animals would have been much better off if Noah had jumped ship and left them to it.
John James
