There's nothing like the beauty of the sea--when all is right. Its shoreline can entice one to walk along it. Its crashing waves can soothe a troubled mind. Its fish and world can both feed humans and mesmerize them.
But with the dawn of plastics, c...
Something was happening to the marine life. There were those who had acknowledged it. Other individuals had turned a blind eye to it. Still, more people had laughed at the thought of it. Yet, all the world had buzzed with information about it--both valid and false.
Divers had been sent into the oceans. They were students of the waters who brought back samples from the seabed and its clouding mass. All was being done, in an effort to learn just what was happening to the fish and why. But, did humans really care to know? Did they actually want to solve the problem? Could they?
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"It had long been rumored that the world would, one day, be without oceans," huffed the knowing diver, to the scientist captain, upon exiting the ocean, holding a bucket of plastic fish and turtles--all of which had once been flesh and bone alive!
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"No one had expected 'that,' though," marveled the captain.
Toss-away plastics had invaded, and were now conquering both tranquil and rough waters around the globe. Sea life, for years, had ingested those single-use plastics. Now fish metamorphosed into unimaginable plastic ones, filling the seas with man-made death.
Some people claim that cell life forms had started in the sea; others say that they began in earth mud pots. No matter the case, a damp environment had been key, to bring all about on a formerly dead planet earth.
Whether that "moisture" had come, carried within meteorites that had once crashed into the earth, or was born from the crust of the earth itself--when its heat had mixed with a cooler atmosphere--first cell forms had flourished, as they adapted and overcame obstacles.
Now things were changing the other way--from living sea life to all plastic. Could humans survive without the sea? Its creatures? Its plant life? Would they want to do so?
Evolution tells us that life develops--and betters--over time. Homo sapiens, it's said, did not always stand upright to walk.
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Natural diamonds, too, form, due in part to time focused on the earth's mantle. Human beings are mostly water. Water is life. Is that all coincidence, or significant importance of which all should pay attention?
None of that mattered now. Single-use plastics were no longer the pollutants of the seas. They "were" the seas! The newly-formed plastic fish tell this horror tale!
Here again, life has evolved into something else, though backward--live fish to plastic. Mother Nature doesn't always get things right, at first. She learns, over time, to bring about perfection in life...if she's still around to do so.
Will she be, for tomorrow's oceans, or will this harrowing evolution continue?
