I wanted to write this post based on a really weird dream I had recently. It’s quite funny but I promise you, I have a point!

In this dream, I was travelling in China and I get to a really beautiful beach city (I assumed it was Sanya City) and the sea was so beautiful, just like the crystal clear waters in the Maldives. I was so thrilled!

I was walking along a bridge looking down into the beautiful waters just enjoying the moment. The water was so clean and clear, I would be able to see a needle on the bottom! I was really impressed. Suddenly I reached a point where the bottom of the sea was covered with dark grey and brown dead animals, fish, garbage and all sorts of unpleasant stuff. I stared at it in horror and was about to turn back when I realised that they all looked a bit unnatural. I took a closer look and realised that it was all artificial! There was even a board the middle of the huge pile that says “This is what happens when you pollute our beautiful waters…save it while you can”.

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Funny enough, I woke up as soon as I got the ‘message’. Lying on my bed half asleep, I laughed to myself because it was just so unbelievably weird! Of all the things in the world why would I dream of that? Perhaps it could be because of all the environment related tweets I’ve been reading recently!

Anyway I was just wondering about what I saw… was it really so strange? Or was it actually quite realistic? Will policies like that work? Is fear and intimidation a potentially more successful approach to get people to take note of something? Or is better to stick to more subtle ways? If we saw entire countries being washed away, islands sinking, rivers drying up, animals & trees dying, entire populations of fish vanishing etc. will we stop and think to ourselves? Will we reconsider? And then I thought, oh wait…it’s all happening right before our eyes even now and that hasn’t really stopped us from harming the very environment we are living in…which perhaps wouldn’t even be liveable for the generations to come.

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