A Choking Hazard #PlanetOrPlastic

Choking Hazard (481 Words)

Everything in the ocean has been replaced with plastic. The once blooming coral reefs full of color and life are now nothing more than heaps of plastic bags infinitely drifting in the dull sea that used to be full of color. The corpses of the animals that once called the ocean their home now rotting away at the bottom of the ocean, buried under tons of plastic. The once blue ocean is now nothing more than Earth's giant dumpster and it has changed everything.

The year is 2028 and the oceans have been completely covered by our human waste. All of the once beautiful beaches of the world are now considered hazardous wastelands. There is little to no clean water on Earth, not due to global warming, but because plastic has trapped and polluted nearly every single body of water on Earth. This caused a massive decrease of living things on Earth and transformed green luscious forest into barren deserts. Nearly half of all living things have slowly died due to dehydration and the other remaining half struggles to obtain food and water. The United Nations has declared this as an apocalyptic extinction event and have been constantly trying to fight back against it for four years, but they have only managed to slightly delay it.

I've been desperately fighting back against the "plastic apocalypse" as some people choose to call it. Not so long ago, I was a marine biologist and photographer working for none other than National Geographic. I've always been attracted to the ocean, ever since I was a little kid, and it pains me to think that if a miracle were to occur and we survive this extinction level event, all future generations will never know the joy of watching a seal pup playing in the sand, or the overall feeling of peace you get while admiring a wild pod of killer whales swimming away at sunset. Something that no one will ever experience again.

What hurts the most is the fact that this apocalyptic event could have been easily avoided. There were people who warned us of this devastating future, yet we refused to take their word. We continued to be ignorant to the fact that we were causing the end of the world, and we did nothing about it. We ignored the suffering of trillions of oceanic creatures and continued to do the thing that was harming them the most until everything was dead, and only when we started suffering the aftereffects of dumping all of our garbage into the ocean did we start to care, but nevertheless we were too late and all of our efforts proved to be fruitless.

People always say that plastic bags are a choking hazard, and they never knew how right they were until a trillion of them choked the life out of this once beautiful planet.