Womblin’s World

This weekend, I did this for the first time and was gobsmacked by the amount of CRAP produced along only a small stretch of Wales’ coastline. Wow, our species is sooooo messy and uncaring. Yes uncaring, and here’s why:

A couple of weeks ago I was out and about at a hot-air balloon festival where there were people selling small, helium filled balloons for charity. There was to be a mass release of hundreds, each balloon bearing a ticket with the name of the person who bought said favour. The first to be found and reported to the charity would be the winner of this strange ‘race’. Except that many people don’t realise that most of these good cause balloons end up as rubbish on land or, more distressingly, at sea where some types of marine wildlife mistake them for food. They get eaten, they get stuck, and the animal starves to death.

Anyway, the balloon race charity man steps into my path and rattles a collection box at me. “Buy a balloon for the balloon race?”

I shake my head and smile politely. Then, as he shakes the box again I say, “Okay, I will give you some money, but won’t buy a balloon because of what they do to marine wildlife. You d0 know what I mean, don’t you?” He nods and looks guilty as I deposit some coins into his box.

He nods and looks guilty.

This man knows, and yet he is still promoting this bit of ‘fun’ that kills creatures of the sea slowly and painfully. Again, humanity places itself over all other Earthly species in order of importance.

I walk away shaking my head. What can one do with people like that? These people know yet they ignore. The same type who will in all probability read the first few lines of this blog post then move on to something a little less conscience-biting.

Please, dear readers, support marine wildlife by refusing to buy balloons for these ‘races’. Support the human charity promoting the race by donating at the same time. Explain why you’re doing what you’re doing. It doesn’t take much. Really.