On an average 60% of the human body is water. And approximately 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water . Out of this >95% comprises oceans. Oceans have been the womb from where life on land was born. We owe our existence to Oceans. And yet we desecrate them - mostly knowingly- this includes all of us who live thousands of kilometres away from the sea. Surprised? Let me clarify. Guess which is the leading pollutant of our oceans? It is PLASTIC According to a report by The 5 Gyres Institute there is an an estimated 170 trillion particles of plastic in our oceans. If that is a little difficult to visualise , then the figure actually translates to roughly 21250 pieces of plastic for every single human being. Our individual contribution of 21250 plastic stems from indiscriminate usage, improper disposal of plastic that finds its way to the rivers , which then offload this plastic junk into our oceans. Wait , this gets more serious - The plastic that we dump in our oceans does not just harm the marine life - they have come to bite us in the form of microplastics. Quoting an article posted on Science News- "In recent years, microplastics have been documented in all parts of the human lung, in maternal and fetal placental tissues, in human breast milk and in human blood. Microplastics scientist Heather Leslie, formerly of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and colleagues found microplastics in blood samples from 17 of 22 healthy adult volunteers in the Netherlands." This just shows how closely our health existence is linked to the health and existence of our oceans. So on World Oceans Day - let us all be sensitised to the unintentional damage that we are causing to our womb and take a conscious effort to lower our individual plastic footprint from the current 21250 plastic pieces today. WhiteSpace Consulting & Capability Building https://lnkd.in/dNKe8ZzY
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Beautifully said in your inimitable style Vicky Da . Stray away from nature and invite trouble and that’s for sure . Closer to nature is closer home .
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