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I remember her book, Silent Spring, and how my mom thought we would all begin to pay attention to what we were doing to the environment. So much misplaced hope, I guess. Or faith. But then I think more will belong to the sea, though more of the sea will be dead. I was just reading that 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing each year--including sharks, marlins, sea turtles, albatrosses, dolphins, whales . . . And then there s trawling --marine clear-cutting, done to get shrimp. And then there is the effect of our agricultural waste creating dead zones. Okay, I should stop.
Nin, It was the popular success of Carson s great marine biology work -- the sea trilogy as it s called -- that made it possible for her to do Silent Spring; and that book in turn probably did more than any other single work to advance public concern apartments for sale in los angeles ca about the impact that human activity apartments for sale in los angeles ca could have on the environment. The influence of her work was immense; the EPA may well owe its existence to that influence, and one of the most impressive projects of the early days of that Agency was the documentary photo-survey from which these pictures come. The captions show that Flip Schulte had her work specifically in mind in his trip through the Keys, and certainly there is an elegiac tone to his portfolio, showing as it does the wholesale destruction of natural habitats cleared away by that monster Development which devours all in its path. Returning to the scene of her work, he saw that it had been turned into one gigantic apartments for sale in los angeles ca tacky trailer park.
I feel like I should have something intelligent to say, since I literally live on the water, about 100 feet from shore (depending on the tides). The land in our marina is new, filled in first during WWII for the liberty ship yards, and then again in the seventies by some developer or other. There used to be a salt marsh here, and there s still a little bit of one that we sometimes kayak over and visit. I m not sure I ve ever lived anywhere where so much history was literally (littorally?) written into the landscape. apartments for sale in los angeles ca I ve also never lived in a place where I was so aware of trash (mine and others ). There s a lot of it. I ve seen entire pizzas float past, and wine glasses bobbing along carrying the dregs of last night s bottle. But still, living on the bay makes me hopeful. There are so many pelicans on the water right now, diving apartments for sale in los angeles ca for herring in the eelgrass out behind our boat. Before Silent Spring , brown pelican populations were declining, their eggs too soft to sustain the chicks. And porpoises are returning too, for the first time in 60 years. It makes me feel like things are fixable, that if we can wise up and stop breaking stuff, it ll all make it s way back. That said, if you ever come for a visit, don t touch the mud. It s still toxic from all the chemicals that got dumped in the water while they were painting the liberty ships.
You could almost hope that such a force in sound would wipe all those old sorts out! That one verse from Revelations apartments for sale in los angeles ca stuck with me from an all too early age: And a third of all creatures that were in the Sea that had breath, died, and a third of ships was destroyed. apartments for sale in los angeles ca 8:9 it always struck me as the grand disaster.
Nora, I left out so many shots of once pristine beaches littered with beer and soda cans, empty bottles and other party trash that I almost felt guilty of whitewashing the scale of the development disaster in the Keys. But now you ve filled in a bit more of the evidence of the widespread nature of this American recreational project -- the destroying of the shore lines, that is. The image of pizza boxes the size of Spanish galleons floating past your houseboat haunted my anyway routinely hallucinated night. The one relief from this image came of remembering that at least pizza boxes, apartments for sale in los angeles ca when soaked for a sufficient period in salt water, do have a way of turning back into nature (?). Vassilis, Which reminds me: wasn t that churning of the guitar waters featured in the soundtrack of... PULP fiction? (So what s NOT pulp about nonfictional reality any more?) WB, I hear you. Perhaps a variant exegesis might place the grand disaster in the fact the Lord did not make the Earth flat after all -- for if He had, those European ships might have simply dropped off into the Abyss before getting apartments for sale in los angeles ca as far as Bermuda. In which imaginal utopian case, no dredging, no defoliation, no wholesale silt-depositing, no scraping, backing or filling, no permanent trailer parks, plugged waterways, no beer cans or pizza boxes, no rampant development, nada. Just think of it. The virginal verdant groves, the birds and fish, the 40 varieties of coral -- all that rounded abundance of creation -- left safely intact on the underside of the flat world. Before that first white sail on the horizon...
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