Watching this video of masses of seafoam covering the
beaches of an Australian town got to me wondering just how polluted our oceans
have become. The foam was caused by the churning of the waters in the Pacific
by a cyclone. Although it seems funny
and people were walking through the foam laughing at its uniqueness, I have to
think it’s a bad sign and that possibly those people shouldn’t be playing in
what could be a toxic substance. Combine this event with the odd weather
patterns seen world-wide, the destruction Sandy caused, the many volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes of the past year or two and it’s so obvious this
world is going through massive changes (which are apparently cyclic according
to studies of climate change). The only question is this: are we exacerbating
those changes through pollution, fracking, draining natural resources?
Rebecca Ryals Russell
Mind the Signs
MG/YA Dark Fantasy Author
