These are photos from a beach in Uruguay, beautiful in its isolation and lack of development… except for the tonnes of rubbish washed up on the sand.
If a species of animal left our environment looking like this, we would probably declare it a pest and try to eradicate it. Take for example what we do in Australia to the kangaroos who damage our farmland.
So why do we let humans get away with treating our oceans and beaches like this?
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One man's trash... is still trash,
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Dec
21st
2011
Turtle, like the name suggests, likes to take things slowly. Luckily that's one of the best ways to see the world - and that's exactly what he's doing at the moment.
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Ow I just hate what I’m looking to right now. Are those people who threw those garbage do not have any care about their environment? What kind of human beings they are. They are suppose to protect, not to destroy.
This makes me sad. Argentina and Uruguay both have serious litter problems. I see people throw garbage on the ground constantly, and they do not even try to hide it. They simply do not care!
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I wonder whether it’s an education thing and they just don’t understand. I really hope it’s not that they just don’t care!
Oh God, seeing trash on the beach is so depressing. I’m not bothered by it that much in human environment aka cities, but seeing it somewhere else makes me really sad.
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Exactly! If people choose to live in filth then there’s only so sorry you can feel for them. But animals and nature don’t have a choice – it’s so sad to see beaches like this covered in trash.