Urbanity

The insanity of living in the city center.
Well having grown up in a city that was kinda dodgy at best living in the suburbs made sense.
Yet it almost seemed like there was something missing.
Now that Johannesburg is evolving into the world class city it proclaims itself to be (long way to go yet, however the signs are good.) we start finding ourselves drawn to that aspect of life that eludes the suburbs.
That sense of community, the comradeship that is formed over a coffee at a corner side bistro that you and a client or collegue walked to.
The sights and smells of life, as you walk from place to place, unfiltered by the windows and aircons within which you would be cacooned as you drove from the suburbs to the nearest mall.
It may be insanity to live in a box surrounded by millions of other people, yet it brings you closer to both your communiy and your enviroment than living in the suburbs

The Death of our Oceans

This photo is of items that were dumped prior to the oceans ant-dumping laws being put into effect.

The scary part is that this means that the tires in the picture have been there for over 30 years and show very little decay in all that time.

Can you imagine the amount of debris and junk including nuclear waste sitting at the bottom of our oceans. The other part of the problem is that although dumping in the oceans has officially stopped (If we cant stop pirates from hi-jacking ocean liners, how are we going to stop illegal dumping?) nobody has worked out how much junk flows into our oceans via polluted river systems.

Just think of the thousands of rivers that flow into the sea and how many cities they pass enroute.

I think its to late to cry for mother earth, its now time to start mourning.