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“People are affronted when someone like me manages to acquire wealth by my own ingenuity, when they haven’t managed to do so despite all their claims superiority.”

She had done the ultimate job of creation, and now she had nothing left.

Humanity and all it entailed was too much, far too much, given the great new weight of humanity that had entered into their home with the birth of their son.

I think working mother is perhaps the most nonsensical concept ever concocted. I mean, who isn’t a working mother? And then add a paid job to it, so what are you then? A working working mother? Imagine saying working father.

“Who ever thought a mother would need to sanitize a counter of the milk meant for her baby? The milk should be sopped up using a ceremonial rag that’s then set at the foot of a towering, infinitely beautiful sculpture carved to honor the Eternal Mother, Giver of Life and Maker of All Things”

“After all, women didn’t have to stop their lives now, in this day and age, for babies. They could work in the office and work at home. They could work and work and work around the clock if they wanted!”

“The women discussed these items with such intensity that they took on a significance wholly disproportionate to reality.”

Sounds like social media

The threats facing our ocean are significant, but throughout human history we have shown our ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. Especially ones of our own making.

More people than ever before are aware of the challenges facing our ocean. If we can show that change is possible, and actively create ways to include people who may not ordinarily have felt welcome, then we have a realistic chance of saving our ocean.

The ocean isn't something distant to be saved, we are our ocean and caring for it starts with caring for ourselves.

People readily expressed an understanding that our ocean was under threat and were concerned as a result. But this concern was for the ocean as a separate entity - a mild sadness that distant coral reefs were dying, rather than any understanding of how the ocean crisis will impact us all.

Pleasantly surprised she's included how beaches/coastal areas can be off-putting for PoC especially south asians/visibly Muslim lol. I remember how we looked at reviews to see whether people had experienced racism there. Imagine gatekeeping a public area... gross and racist.

Even in the UK, an island nation where you are never more than seventy miles from the coast, one in five children have never seen the sea.

We'll never get back all we have lost but that doesn't mean that we can't aim for something differently wonderful.

Marine conservation isn't just diving on coral reefs or monitoring sea turtles. For the most part, it's the influencing of better policies and practices across all sectors of society. Attending a municipal meeting is not as Instagrammable as snaps from a tropical beach but its impact for our ocean can be off the charts.

Ocean protection isn’t about excluding people, it’s about empowering people to be ocean stewards with the right laws, funding, tools and support.

This plastic is killing ocean wildlife. It causes pain, suffering and death as creatures of all sizes ingest or get entangled in it. Scientists have even identified the first-ever plastic-caused disease, Plasticosis, where pieces of plastic cause internal injuries in seabirds.

Horrifying

Some experts have suggested that by 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the sea

people use DYNAMITE to kill fish? What on earth

- The ocean is the planet’s largest carbon store and absorbs over a third of our CO2 emissions. Heat from greenhouse gases is warming the ocean and making it more acidic

Left in the ocean, Antarctic krill is not just penguin and whale food, it also removes up to 12 billion tons of carbon a year from the atmosphere.

The ocean soundtrack is the most amazing composition I've ever heard; but with each passing year, it's sounding more off-beat and more out-of-tune. Every species makes a difference. Every species matters.

Shifting Baseline Syndrome is the gradual change in what we consider as the normal condition of the natural world, and it comes about due to a lack of experience, memory and/or knowledge of its past condition.

"God knows what degenerative strain runs through your body. An outsider, a member of a disharmonic race," Florence said, flinging the soiled shoes on the bed. "But we must accept it.
He has spoken."
"Et Verbum caro factum est," Noemí said automatically, remembering the phrase. He was lord and priest and father, and they were all his children and acolytes, blindly obeying him.

This house had been built atop bones. And no one had noticed such an atrocity, rows and rows of people streaming into the house, into the mine, and never leaving. Never to be mourned, never to be found. The serpent does not devour its tail, it devours everything around it, voracious, its appetite never quenched.

The woman named a sum. Noemí opened her purse and took out a few bills. Marta Duval might have cataracts, but she saw the bills clearly enough.

Loll

The paradox, Taymme explains, is that the memory of the neonatal unit, for both the children and their families, persists regardless of the severity of their condition. "These significant experiences leave lifelong scars that don't go away. And the words we use are imprinted forever in the minds of the parents."