Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Everything Is Dead

Not one living thing in our beautiful, vast river is alive. No one near my  home has spotted a single living creature in the water for more than two days. Everything is dead.


I have personally communicated with dozens of people who are suffering from the toxic aerosols from this event. It's mostly respiratory problems, shortness of breath, asthma, sinus problems. Conjunctivitis, dizziness, and nausea, too. Pets are affected also if they've been near the river. I'm heartbroken. I'm sick. It's World Water Day and I'm crying saltwater tears for our planet.... I will keep reporting as I learn more about what has happened here in my formerly beautiful world. I know many of you are suffering in similar circumstances. We all need to work together to keep this planet together. What a mess, and what a job. Through tears, let's have hope and work together!


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9 comments:

  1. AzarMarch 23, 2016 at 12:18 AM

    Marla,
    This should be national news. I am not hearing one thing about it except from you. What is this?
    Azar xx

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    1. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 5:22 AM

      We are local news now. If you Google news for Brevard fish kill you'll find stories. It should be national news. I think they are downplaying it because it is Spring Break and we are a big tourist area, we get lots of Spring Breakers.

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    2. AzarMarch 23, 2016 at 5:41 PM

      Hi Marla,
      As you know, I grew up in/near your neighborhood. I remember occasional fish kills but they were small. Nothing like this. Oh dear...
      Azar AKA Gail

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    3. UnknownMarch 26, 2016 at 3:10 PM

      I'm glad you were not here to witness this, Gail. You'd be heartbroken. Needless to say, I'm becoming much more activist about this issue. Clean healthy waters are one of the biggest needs on our planet right now. It's much less abstract when things like this happen in your backyard!

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  2. LoriMarch 23, 2016 at 5:12 AM

    This is terrible! What is going on?

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    1. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 5:23 AM

      We've had the biggest fish kill (but not just fish, all water creatures) in our river in history. The cause is unknown, but the river has been horribly polluted for a long time, and unable to drain properly to the ocean. It's devastation for 50 miles up and down the shores.

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  3. EllenApril 5, 2016 at 9:11 AM

    I just saw these photos. They are horrifying!!! Everyone in the world should see these photos. Everyone needs to know that their part of the world, and they themselves, could be next. The canary in the coal mine died long ago.

    A few years ago, I tried to work with an environmental group, as you have been doing. All of our points were dismissed as irrelevant because our public officials have been bought by industry and developers. It's only a matter of time until we have fish kills like this in the Pacific NW. There have already been oyster kills, which are not as dramatic visually, but devastating for people who make their living from growing shellfish naturally.

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  4. EllenApril 6, 2016 at 9:30 AM

    I left a comment here yesterday, but apparently it didn't upload successfully. Anyway, another sad observation is that I shared your post on my Facebook page, hoping it would get some attention, but there was very little. Apparently people don't want to think about an environmental disaster, but a picture of a puppy or kitten with a silly saying on it goes viral.

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  5. UnknownApril 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM

    Thanks, Ellen. For some reason there's been a delay of about 24 hours for me to see comments, don't know why. I know, I got only a few comments on Facebook about what was happening and how sad I was. But, as an experiment (and funny coincidence considering your comment) I painted a picture of a cute cat in flowers, and I got twice as many likes and comments! Fortunately, we have a lot of concerned and active citizens here, and other counties are having much more success cleaning their part of the river. It's just really hard to get entrenched interests to see that their old, formerly successful ways of managing the world no longer work. Maybe, from the neuroscience point of view, it's impossible to do so....

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