ON february of 2019, I was beaten over the head with a gun and shot at my face for recording a family leaving the trash at a beautiful beach in Puerto rico. Click here for the video in question. Click here to read more abut the shooting.
In this video I talk abot what happened that day. I dropped the charges which i speak about in the video, but you can read here.in more details why I dropped the charges.
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Hello wild ones, welcome to my website. I have been living on the beautiful paradise for the last 13 years now and I love Boriken and it’s people. I want to see this island thrive and be the paradise that it truly is. For the last 11 years I took it upon myself to take care of the beaches and rivers from trash and raising awareness to this problem as I would walk from beach to beach with signs. Click here to read why I chose to become the self imposed guardian of the beaches.
I also took it upon myself to raise awareness about many of the problems facing this island as I believe there needs to be more people who are vocal about the problems as I find many stay silent.
One of the problems is alcoholism, I believe it is a big problem that contributes to many of the other problems, as such the case with all the trash found throughout the island. Click here to read why alcoholism is a problem no one talks about.
Yesterday I drove up the mountains of the beautiful town of Ciales just to find trash all over the roads as you will find all over the island and newsflash. its not tourist who trash all these roads, nor is it tourist who trash the beaches or rivers. Because it is a majority, not all but many of my brothers and sisters from boriken whom call this home.
You would find the roads scattered with beer cans and bottles and trash as many drink and drive everywhere. They would toss it out of their windows not caring about the very community they live in. The very same communities their families and friends live in who all call home. Because treating this magical island like trash, like a landfill has become culture.
All many care about is drinking, eating and having a good time and that is all many live for. That is what has priority over everything else. I don’t see the respect nor the love for this island the way many love their flag. I see pride but as I always mention, that pride doesn’t mean a thing when you treat what you are prideful for like garbage.
We could blame the government, we could blame education or lack of thereof and many here who are in denial could blame tourists. But ultimately many of the people need to look deep and hard in the mirror and see who has to be the one to rise up and take responsibility for their actions. To open their eyes to see the paradise that they truly live in and this behavior is totally unacceptable when you live in such a magical beautiful paradise that is BORIKEN.
It hurts me to continue to see boriken look like a landfill where ever you go. Hurts me to see how many are blind to this because it has become normal. This is what they pass on to their children. Time to wake up and treat boriken with the respect and love that BORIKEN TRULY DESERVES!
In this following video I share my thoughts on why I believe that many, (not all) of the people care more about drinking, partying, having a good time than they do their own island.
Hello all welcome to my website. Here I take you on a tour of my farm down one of my sinkhole forest here in Puerto Rico. A beautiful place where I will create a magical food forest and so much more, Click here to read more about my food forest and what I have growing so far. which you can hear more about on my videos down below.
They are broken down into 2 parts because I live off the grid so it is hard for me to edit my videos.
After a tropical storm here in Puerto Rico, I found the coastline filled with trash as the ocean spit back out the trash that many would leave at the beach and which went ignored as many people would rather ignore the trash rather than pick it up.
I always do my one bag challenge when I go to the beach or river. It is simple, you bring a bag with you and pick up whatever you can. If everyone does it, we could change the world. Click here to read more about my challenge.
So I went and picked up whatever I could for 2 consecutive days. There was just too much trash for one man to take. Which is why I want to encourage others to start taking action and stop ignoring the trash. I am sure most of the trash that I could not take with me went right back into the ocean.
The question is WHY NOT? We often don’t think about the consequences all this trash has not only on our world but the species that inhabit it. The species that we really don’t think or no longer care about. I pick it up knowing that they suffer because of humanities stupidity.
I pick it up because I ask what type of world do we want to leave behind. I pick it up because I choose to want to do something positive for our world and the species that inhabits it and leave a positive footprint instead of negative ones. I think we as capable humans have the power to be the cure instead of the plague that humanity has become. I think we should be the caretakers of this beautiful planet and the species that inhabit it. So I will do what ever in my power to make the changes by being the change. Do you choose to be the change?
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I am still shocked. But at this point I guess I shouldn’t be. About 4 years ago I wrote about the destruction of this beach in the hands of many of the people who leave their trash all over it. Which could be read here.
Well the destruction continues not only to this beach but many beaches and rivers around the island. Allow me to introduce to you behind the scenes of Puerto Rico. This is the entrance to a beautiful beach, poza de las mujeres.
This is how many of the people treat it. Oh and there is a large dumpster 10 feet to the right of this that sits empty. Then many people would say they need more garbage cans every where conveniently there for them. The people don’t need more garbage cans, they need more brain. The problem is that they are too lazy to walk to the trash can.
Many of the people on this island just want to drink ,eat and have a good time and to the hell with everything else. This is how is many places like this end up all over this beautiful lost paradise. Truly shameful.
Why would you want to come back to this. But I am sure many people expect someone to come clean up for them, which I have been doing for the last 6 years trying to maintain this beautiful island to be the paradise that it is. But I think it is hopeless,
The ancestors would be spinning in their graves seeing how many of the people are treating this paradise. Your ancestors that sweated blood and tears to build this island.
I have lived here for the last 9 years now and it seems like I came here to pick up after many of the people who do this, who have no love for the island, yet I was not born here nor raised here but it sure seems like I love this island than most of the people who do this.
But I am sure many of you who treat the island like this would wave your flags proudly. Sorry to say but that pride doesn’t mean nothing when you do this. . Please tell me why many of you want to destroy this paradise? why do you want this paradise to be turned into a landfill. Please help me understand.
I just finished taking garbage out of the beach itself. Which I made a video and will be coming soon on my youtube.
I was going to pick it up. But I am exhausted by this. I left garbage bags on top it’s your turn to pick up. I challenge you. Go and pick up one bagful of garbage each. Take my one bag challenge as I wrote here. Let’s reverse this trend and let’s take care of this paradise.
Many people would be angry at me for speaking out against this. How can you accept this as normal and not be outraged. I love this island and if you love this land, then you will defend it and take care of it and not allow your home to be destroyed. We just choose to stay silent and ignore the problems and just continue to drown in them. Wake up. this is paradise.
The stupidity of humanity. The first week they reopen the beaches here in Puerto Rico and this is what I find. The newest addition of trash to be found everywhere alongside diapers, beer cans, cigarette butts and plastic everything.
We as humans are worried about this pandemic, but we should be worried about what we are doing to the planet. We are the real virus consuming everything in site and destroying the planet and the species that inhabit it.
We must start changing our ways and decide to start being the cure.
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The beaches and rivers have been closed in Puerto Rico for about 2 months now due to the pandemic. I am sure many of the people here in this beautiful paradise were anticipating returning back to all these beautiful spots to enjoy what this paradise has to offer. I am also sure that many of those people were thinking to themselves, I can’t wait to return to the beach or river just to leave my trash.
You would think that many would learn to appreciate what they have when it is gone, but NOPE!. They would continue on with their bad habits and continue this cycle of trashing all this beauty. Sad to say but many people on this island don’t deserve this paradise. That includes many humans around the world. We don’t deserve this paradise of a world we live in.
At the time of this writing, the beaches and rivers have reopened. In the following video which was recorded last week, I found trash when very little of the people went there. I would pick up garbage one day just to find more the next. With the rivers and beaches now open again. The floodgate of trash will return tenfold. I think the beaches and rivers should remain closed since many can’t truly appreciate, cherish and love what they have.
I am sure people will get mad at the title. But won’t get mad about all the trash found on this paradise. anywho enjoy the video…
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Here I am singing a song about the trash in Puerto Rico, but can also be applied to the rest of the world. I incorporated the many signs I walked around with for the past 5 years throughout the beaches and rivers in Puerto Rico as I went on a mission to raise awareness. I became the guardian of the beaches and rivers. Click here to read more about that.