Here I play my Ukulele and sing my environmental signs that I have been carrying with me along the beaches and rivers in Puerto Rico for the past 5 years in many of the beautiful rivers and beaches of Puerto Rico. You can see more photos and read why I protest for the environment here. Enjoy
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Everyday I go to a beautiful beach or river or drive down the roads of this beautiful paradise that is Puerto Rico I it inundated with garbage, Which is why I decided to walk around with signs at the beaches and rivers so that I could raise awareness to this issue.
Every day that I would go clean up whatever beach or river that I might be in, while I noticed everyone else just happily ignores it. I even issued a challenge for people to pick up garbage at the beaches and rivers which can be found here.
One day I went to this beautiful beach that I always would walk with my signs in and would clean it as I went and wrote a blog about it’s destruction here because I would always find garbage there and so on this day I found garbage yet again hidden in the bushes, so I decided to remove it and place it where it would be visible and thought it was time I did a social experiment.
So I decided to leave the garbage I took out of nature since it has become their garbage can and I decided to put it in the walkway going to the beach.
I then went and hid behind a tree (Well, I wasn’t hiding, but they did not notice me, like they don’t notice the garbage.)
I wanted to see if someone would do what I do everyday that I go to the beach and that is leaving it cleaner (or try to at least.) than it was before.
Well as seen in the video one group left added on to that garbage by leaving a bottle in which I had to confront them about it.
I stood there for 30 minutes and no one decided to pick it up. I of course removed the garbage from there, but I am just one man.
Imagine all these people coming together to clean up and leaving it cleaner than they found it.
I think it’s time for the people to wake up and take action (Again take my one trash bag challenge.) and to stop treating paradise like a landfill and stop accepting this as normal. I made this video here asking the people which they prefer, landfill or paradise.
We should be striving for something better, a better world, a better us! Stop accepting mediocrity. We have to stop treating our home, our mother like garbage. Start respecting, cherishing and appreciating this beautiful gift we have been bestowed. For it is the Only home we have.
“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill. Yet it goes on, almost entirely unchallenged.
As Andersen approaches leaders in the environmental movement, he increasingly uncovers what appears to be an intentional refusal to discuss the issue of animal agriculture, while industry whistleblowers and watchdogs warn him of the risks to his freedom and even his life if he dares to persist.
Click here to watch another wonderful documentary entitled Earthlings.
T the initiative is simple. We are sending vegetable waste off to the landfill when we could be using it for composting and returning it back to the Earth to create fertile ground as all it’s nutrients are eroding away.
I use compost for my garden for my plants. So my proposal is to implement a system locally to gather vegetable waste from those who don’t compost their waste. I will give a bucket for those willing to participate where they can dump their vegetable waste and leave at the entrance to their homes and where I would then pick it up weekly to use in my compost.
I will also be going to local supermarkets and see if they are willing to participate as well as they dump most of their vegetables that are going bad.
according to the EPA, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated, more than any other material category but paper. Food waste accounted for almost 14 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, and less than three percent was recovered and recycled in 2010. Food in landfills, unlike in compost piles, breaks down to produce methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This happens because there is an absence of oxygen, the food is buried under more garbage, and a different type of bacteria breaks down the food material into more harmful components.
In addition, we are running out of landfill space and sites. Some cities, like New York, are trucking their waste 600 miles away. Besides, it’s only logical that our food should be returned to the earth where it can do the most good, as a natural fertilizer that replenishes the soil, to grow more food for us for generations to come.
In the United States, food waste is the second largest category of municipal solid waste sent to landfills. About 40 percent of food goes uneaten and gets thrown away to landfills and potentially contributes to greenhouse gas emissions especially with the production of methane, a greenhouse gas that is twenty-one times more potent than carbon dioxide and one of the most dangerous to the environment. Food waste contributes to greenhouse gas emissions by the decomposition of food in landfills and the life cycle, which begins at the stage of production all the way to consumption. Not many people realize that they are the biggest contributors to the increase in methane emissions when they throw out their food as a producer, seller, or consumer. The increased need to reduce food waste is likely to have a profound affect in the environment as it reduces methane emissions and the effect it will have on climate change. Diverting food waste will help reduce the occupancy it makes in landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Update: I wrote this in 2016, but the destruction continues today as people continue to treat this and the whole island like a landfill. Here you can read of the continuation of the destruction of this beautiful beach.
This post was written in 2016 before hurricane maria and hurricane maria did cause damage to the entrance to this beach. But the damage that hurricane maria causes is nothing to what the destruction the people do to this and many other beaches and rivers around the beautiful paradise as the people continue to trash the island and treat it like a landfill.
Here we have Poza de las Mujeres en Manatí, Puerto Rico. A beautiful beach with tranquil waters. This is one of the beaches I decided to be the guardian of as you can read here as to why I decided to be the guardian of the many beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico.
This beach in particular was not well known as it is kind of out of the way where you have to either climb down those rocks below the 4 palms in the center which is the what you will see further in this post or through a path to get there, which was as worse as this one.
But now with the power of social media, people are finding these beautiful gems such as this beach and the adjacent beaches around.
So uh yeah some would say that I complain a lot about the garbage here in Puerto Rico. But when you see this day in and day out in such a beautiful place, why would anyone accept this as normal.
This is the walkway to the beach I was in yesterday, La poza de las mujeres. So people would pass through this like like it was second nature.
DA DA DA nothing to see…. move along.
This went on all the way to the other trail going out. Bottles of beers scattered about, it’s truly sad that this is what we as a “society” have become and again it’s not only here but all around this world. this is humanity’s pattern, it has become our way of life. Worldwide.
We have become numb to it, we have become nothing but a world of consumers. We buy plastic cups just to use them once and throw it to the side when we could use a reusable cup, but washing that cup would be too much work for most as we live in a world of convenience.
In my observation, We just want to get drunk from this world. People just want to go the beaches and get wasted and have a good ol’ time.
I think Alcoholism is a huge problem in this island and not only on this island but across the world.
We have become disassociated with nature and we continue to live a life filled with stress and where we want to numb that stress away,we want to break out of the shell and so we have become numb to the world.
The primary garbage that I find all over this island is alcohol, beer bottles and cans. Of course plastic everywhere. Don’t we ever stop to think of our actions. I wrote a blog on plastic and why we should use less and what we could do to change our consumption of plastic, which could be found here.
There once was a travel documentary in the 50’s called “Welcome to Fiesta Island”. Which can be found on that link.
That is what seems like the people just want. To just party all the time and there is no problem with wanting to have a good time.
But we should be responsible for what we do, we should strive to try to change this world and our bad habits. We should want to try to better this world instead of engulfing it with our ignorance.
Garbage should not be second nature. It should not be something we should be used to. We should not sit next to garbage like if it was a normal thing, our children should not be playing in garbage.
This is what your children inherit from their parents. This is the cycle we pass on to them, We no longer know the meaning of respect and like one of my signs read, “You don’t respect the earth, because you don’t respect yourselves.” A radical sign, but something that had to be said.
Come enjoy the beaches of Puerto Rico, Just gotta walk over the garbage to get to the beach.
This is what happens in just one day. This the path going down to the beach through the rocks below.
One person throws garbage the next person follow because this world has become nothing but a world of followers.
We allow ourselves to be manipulated by the actions of others. We become that product of this environment. We see that others don’t care and so we start not caring.
It becomes infectious.
When we should not allow the stupidity of others influence our frame of thought.
People want Garbage cans in beaches like this where it would be difficult for someone to come in to pick up their garbage.
But it all goes back again to convenience, people want others to come pick up after them.
They have this mentality of entitlement. There method of thinking is well if they don’t have a garbage can for us we are just gonna leave it here and that is the kind of mentality we breed and pass on to our children.
It’s just too much work to carry your lighter than you brought it in garbage.
I always say if you want garbage cans and others to come pick up after you then you should pay to enter that beach so that others can come clean up after your entitled buttocks.
It;s that simple, and even more simple than that is you take the garbage that you brought with you back with you.
Most of the people I encounter at this beach come from the metropolitan area, around the capital area of the island, San Juan.
So people come from afar to leave their garbage in this and other beautiful beaches.
WHY?
I ask WHY?
How hard is it to put it back in your precious car, oh no, can’t have garbage in your car.
We are in need of an expansion of consciousness because we live in a world where the people’s consciousness has become numb and sedated.
We and I say we as the world not only Puerto Rico, we need to open our eyes and see what we as a humanity are doing not only to our world, but to the species that call it home and to what we leave our future.
They should not inherit this world. This concrete mentality and environment that we continue to create along with our ignorance.
This is the destruction of the poza de las mujeres and the destruction of our own HOME.
This is what happens not only in this beach but many beautiful beaches and rivers and along the sides of the road of this beautiful enchanted island.
It’s a widespread infectious disease and we just can’t stop burying our home, it’s species, including our own selves.
It pains me to see such a beautiful island and the rest of this beautiful world be destroyed and allowed to be destroyed by our own ignorance and stubbornness.
The stubbornness to change our ways and instead of leaving nothing but footprints. we leave a path of destruction.
Such a beautiful paradise that we have confined into a hell that we continue to make it. We took heaven and confined it into hell and we continue to go no where in this world but to our own demise.
I want to get paint and paint on this giant wall,some of the signs because people need signs in order to remind them what they need to do. But something like what is written in this world won’t suffice in a world to numb, which is why my signs had to be “radical and extreme”.
Well I know most people won’t like what I have to say but it has to be said. The problem of this world is we stay silent about things that matter.
I am not trying to paint this island in a bad way. I just want to bring attention to the problem at hand.
We have to stop the mass consumption again bring your own cups and you can use your cooler as a garbage can the same way your brought it in.
WHAT A CONCEPT!
We have to reduce our consumption as best we can.
Let’s wake up, lets change the way we see this world, lets not accept this as normal, we are the change,we can either be the plague or be the cure.
We have to pave a better path for a better future, we should not be handing down our shovels. We should only pass down shovels if we plan to grow food, not garbage!
Here is a video
Currently, I am in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, I pick up trash every time I go anywhere on this island since it has become a landfill, I find many plastic cups, bags, straws that would all end up in the ocean and suffocating the species that call this world home if no one picked it up.
But no one gives a damn since we live in a world where people no longer respect life. So much plastic and for what, we buy cups and Use it only once and then throw it wherever and so it continues. We use shopping bags for one or two things only because it’s convenient.
It’s not only here, but in many parts of our world. I think we must stop using plastic cups, bags, and everything else made from it. Stop using things that continue to contribute to this world we have created. So much plastic that we are drowning in garbage.
But it is that people want convenience. They do not want to bring things that have to be washed later. And we continue every week with mountains of garbage on top of more trash, since people’s minds are full of garbage that they do not think of the effects they cause and thus we continue to contribute to this inundation.
Here in Puerto Rico, the government is passing a law banning plastic bags. But it is sad that people need the government to tell them they have to stop using it. When people should be more aware of how we live in this world and the impact we create. People will continue to use bags until they prohibit it, when they could stop now.
“Plastic should be a high value material… [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it–I think that’s not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)”
― Susan Freinkel,
We need to change our mentality. Change how we view our world. What type of world do you want to leave for the future and the species that inhabit it? I implore you to change your ways. The change starts with us.
If you see garbage, straws, bottle caps, bags, pick it up wherever you might be. Here I wrote about a challenge, where if everyone picked up just one bagful of garbage, we could start changing things.
Here I posted a video, when birds eat plastic.
Watch this video by surfriders
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Exposing the truth about our corrupt world and what humanity has become.
This is a short documentary film made by Spencer Cathcart, questioning our freedom, the education system, corporations, money, the American capitalist system, the US government, world collapse, the environment, climate change, genetically modified food, and our treatment of animals.
I could have not said it better myself. Most of what this cosmic soul says in this well put together video is what I have been saying throughout this blog and throughout my videos and it is something many around the world are awakening to. Many of us are waking up from this world we live in and seeing it for what it is and not for what it appears to be.
But the lie we live. What a lie it is. The illusion right on front of our eye. I always ask myself why do we live this way. Always asking if we are put here for the mundane. To rinse, wash repeat our way through life and to follow the path going no where. Life should be more than chasing the perceived happiness that is paper. Life should be more than a repetitive cycle. It should be spontaneous, it should be thrilling, it should lived with a purpose going beyond than the mundane.
Anyway enjoy the video. I think I shall start making more videos soon with a better presentation such as this video. I think it is time to step up my game in making videos. I was going to write a blog about the lie we live in and I just searched to see what I would find and this video showed up. He has some other cool one’s as well, so be sure to check out his channel.