All Plastic, No Fish

Fishless Sea

Imagine a fishless sea

It's quite a sad place to be

All plastic, no fish

And it's everyone's wish

To know how they used to be

Plastic

Desolate ocean

More barren than a desert

All plastic, no fish

Think of the People

If you don't think of the fish

Think of the fishermen

Of the chefs

Of the marine biologists

Who would lose their jobs

With plastic oceans

If you don't think of the fish

Think of the children

Aspiring to be

Fishermen

Chefs

Marine biologists

Who will lose their dreams

With plastic oceans

If you don't think of the fish

Think of the fisheries

Of the sushi restaurants

Of the aquariums

That will have to close down

With plastic oceans

If you don't think of the fish

Think of the people

Who will be affected

By plastic oceans

We Can Change

Before the smartphone we used flip phones

Before flip phones we used landlines

Before landlines we used telegraphs

Before telegraphs we wrote letters

Before letters we spoke face to face

Before speaking we used body language

There's always a new way to do something

We just have to find it

Just because we use plastic so often

Doesn't mean we can't use something else

Think

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is over twice the size of Texas

Texas is 268,597 square miles

A square mile is one 300th of New York City

Think about the size

Of that group

Of floating

Garbage

Remember The Animals

Remember the turtles

Who ate plastic bags

Thinking they were jellyfish

Remember the birds

Who were poisoned

By eating fish

Swimming in chemical-filled water

Remember the fish

Choked by can-holders

Remember the animals

Who have suffered

Because of humans