In This New Year Let’s… Re-FUSE!
My family has the tradition of spending the first day of the year near the sea. Obviously it feels great to go for a healthy walk at the beach after all the extra eating from Christmas and Hogmanay, but there’s more to it. Looking at the immensity of the sea gives us the feeling that everything is possible. The sea is exciting, challenging and refreshing — as the first day of the year should be!
I grew up in Portugal reading poets like Sophia de Mello Breyner and Fernando Pessoa who beautifully celebrate the grandiosity and mystery of the sea, but they didn’t get me ready for this sea.
This sea that I know has more plastic than fish. This sea that I know in some parts of the world is not even blue anymore, because sadly it is all covered in garbage.
It is the 1st January 2021 and I stand before a sea that is deep, beautiful and inspiring, but at the same time a sea that needs rescue, as does our planet. A polluted sea that is home for thousands of endangered species that need our help as well.
So… let’s all hate plastic?
