- What You Can Do -
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCIENCIOUSNESS /ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Dive Ethic
Dive smart-Dive safe
No impact diving!
Touch nothing -Take only pictures - Leave only bubbles - Kill nothing but time
We can only reach those of you who share an
interest in the underwater part of our world and we are asking you to join us
by doing your part in helping to preserve what we are lucky enough to still
share today. It's not too late if we act now
if
we all do a little
it's a lot!
If you are a diver, clean as you go - Pick up any trash that
you find and bring it back with you. I bring nylon line with me and try to upright
and reattach broken coral and sponges you find lying on the bottom by tying
them at their base to rocks or dead coral substrate (not on living coral).
Even if you never set foot in the ocean you can still
help. "WE THE PEOPLE" have tremendous power and influence if we unite,
together we can make a difference...E-mail your congressman/woman, senator or
your elected representatives and let them know what's important to you
elect
only those who take your issues seriously and act accordingly. Join and contribute
(time and/or resources) to any of the environmental organizations helping to
save our planet...(go
to related links on this website). Boycott the companies that
harm our environment by not using their products or services.
Educate yourself, learn the facts for yourself! Too many authoritative agencies
are giving out false and biased information as a result of influence from special-interest
corporations.
Recycle
Reduce pollution
consider using alternate
energy...green energy...
Don't buy paper goods that aren't recycled
Chlorine used in paper mills
creates Dioxins...
Stop Junk Mail
It causes deforestation and creates garbage
costs more
money to collect and move, which fills our land fills prematurely or if it's
incinerated also creates Dioxin
Only buy Dolphin-safe tuna, boycott the ones that aren't
they are still
violating those laws today...
Seafood (Tuna and salmon especially) now contains high levels of mercury, which
is a poison; scientists are now recommending that we limit our seafood intake
to one serving per week. If you are pregnant or breast feeding the mercury in
your system can cause your baby to have an IQ deficit of 5 to 7 points. This
is just one of the results of coal burning plants violating the Clean Air Act.
Act now to stop the weakening of our environmental laws and force these polluters
into compliance.
Don't eat shrimp that was caught by trawling, raking the ocean floor of all
its life. Today there is a 600-mile "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico
from this kind of indiscriminate killing...for every four shrimp they catch,
they throw away ten pounds of by-catch.
We have a responsibility to the future generations
and the future of mankind as a species to try to make up for mistakes made in
the past (intentional and unintentional) and to change those that are being
made today by those with less foresight and consideration for others. I don't
begrudge anyone making a profit, just not at the expense of others. Do you know
anyone sick with cancer? It is unprecedented.
The evidence is irrefutable, global warming is here and occurring at an unprecedented
rate, we are quickly approaching the tipping point, where the escalating global
temperature is causing major melting of the huge ice flows in both the Arctic
and Antarctic alike. These glacial continents help regulate our global temperature.
If left unchecked we will have gone past the point of no return and our planet's
ability to regulate it's own temperature will be gone forever and the ensuing
global catastrophe will inevitably follow. We are receiving our wake up call,
we need to act now to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, lower global
temperature before it's too late...the choice is ours.
I sincerely believe that education and pro-activity are crucial. My goal is
the conservation and preservation of our oceans and our environment, to protect
the health of our ocean planet, our home, to raise environmental awareness and
to promote and inspire in each of us a sense of stewardship toward our fragile
ocean planet and all that live here. The health of our planet directly affects
our health and our quality of life. The world is getting smaller every day.
Our environment is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. Raising public
awareness is key to saving our planet and us ultimately from ourselves.
By allowing the careless unchecked destruction, exploitation and reckless ravaging
of our limited natural resources, we are sawing the proverbial limb right out
from under us
This shortsightedness if not corrected, is going to cost
us dearly and I'm talking the collective us
humanity. Extinction, like
the dinosaurs, the difference between the dinosaurs and us is that they had
no control over what happened to them...we do. We do have control over what
is happening and with even knowing that we continue to harm ourselves and all
of the planet's life forms. Some of us egotistically consider humans to be superior
to all other life forms on this planet, then why aren't we successfully managing
our resources and the consequences created by using them. Why aren't we protecting
our environment...our health, our life support? Superior? More intelligent?
That remains to be seen...
Our planet, the environment is shared by all of us and at the same time belongs
to none of us. I believe that there should be world laws protecting our planet
from any individual(s), corporation, government or nation) profiting at the
expense of another. Pollution affects all our health and the health of our environment.
It's time to change. It is up to each and every one of us to do whatever we
can to affect positive change, and reverse the environmental crimes being committed
today before it's too late. We are in a crisis, and time is running out. Each
individual has the responsibility and the right to preserve the gift we take
for granted. We have to learn how to responsibly manage our planet (and it's
limited resources). It's only going to get harder with time. And there are no
second chances once it's gone. The condition of our oceans and rain forests
are barometers as to the general health of our planet, without them we will
cease to exist. Get involved, do something to help, our time is running out...