Singing Whale Songs No More

THE BLUE WHALE in the picture on the computer screen was huge and beautiful, floating underwater, bathed in deep blue beautiful water. He or she must've been many feet long, weighing tons. The photography was wonderul, useful in advertising or promotions. I nevereven bother to recall the name of the organization promoting the ad, because the message itself caught my attetion, and kept it. It said something like: "The songs of the blue whales are dying to a whisper, down forty percent". Then, in smaller print below, it explained that ocean scientists are very alarmed by this, and that it is undoubledly caused by a deterioration in the whale's environment, caused by all of the many and varied forms of pollution and abuse caused by, you guessed it, human activity. We humans are killing teh Earth, the atmosphere, and the ocean's. Whalesong, a precious, beautiful, so plaintive and adorable a combination of squeaks,moans, trumpets and other unique sounds, going silent, gradually, but, inexorably, the joy which probably inspires them vanishing, and gone. Fewer whales to communicate with each other their joy of living, and whatever else they are trying to say. I do a lot of shopping at th eDollar General two blocks away from my house. Each week I put into the garbage several of the plastic sacks they use, which all go, inevitably, to the local landfill, to remain, presumably, nearly permanently. I need to d something to change this. We humans need to do a lot of thigns to change a lot of things. Human activity is killing the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land. When you consider the amount of plastic which is evidently in our bodies, brains, and bloodstreams,and the amount polluting the Earth's water and land, the task of cleaning up our mess becomes daunting. Its almost as if we need to filter every molecule of our bodies, every molecule of water on Earth, and every molecule of top soil in the world thorough some hypothetical systme which thoroughly cleanses out the plastic. Currently we keep adding to the mess. About a week ago the United Nations agreed upon a treaty to fight global plastic pollution. Presumably it involves signatory nations agreeing to limit their production of plastic products and use of plastics generally, and to commit financial resources to cleaning up our minds, bodies, blood streams, as well as the planet as a whole. Precisel how we the people of planet Earth propse to do this is probably at this point anyone's guess, but, we, if nothing else, at least its a start. What is needed is massive effort and change of behavior on a global scale, with a focus on restoring our health and the health of planet Earth. For this, we the people need to stop wasting energy and resources on useless, destructive wars, among other idiotic human activities. The picture of the huge, beautiful whale,slowly going silent,filled me and still fills me with desperation, depression, and rage. I'm sure many other people feel the same way. I used to think we could end war by focusing on the threat of alien invasion from outer space, and uniting humanity agaisnt the extreaterrestrial threat. Perhaps instead we could end war and violence againit each other by uniting in a glorious, global crusade of all humanity, united against and committed to reversing our own past behavior and stupidity.