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?
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?
Would you be brave enough to walk this close to a lava flow and take a sample? I know I wouldn't.
As a writer I imagine several scenarios for possible stories. What do you see when you view these two videos?
Rebecca Ryals Russell
MG/YA Fantasy Author
Fantastical Worlds of Rebecca Ryals Russell
