CONGRATULATIONS TO YEAR 7 STUDENT MAHI for submitting the first 'Why I care'!

Story or Poem:

A mere glance. You can see the plastic bottle clearly, out of the corner of your eye. It lies, lazy and cunning on the soft sand floor. 240,000 microplastics sitting right next to you. But you don’t bother to pick it up. It’s not yours after all.

The waves inch closer, their foamy edges reaching longingly for the shore. Slowly, the trash is dragged into the sea, as if nothing had happened. Perfect beach once again. What you don’t realise is that one action didn’t just disappear into the tide. Away from the long list of problems. Not your responsibility anymore. A turtle just mistook a drifting plastic bag for a jellyfish. A fish just swallowed plastic fragments too small for the human eye to see. A million things are happening in the world. We just can’t see it.

I care because I don’t want to leave the earth dying for future generations. I don’t want children growing up to hear about our coral reefs as myths. I don’t want them left wondering why we stood still while oceans rose, forests burned and animals vanished. One day, future kids will live in the world we left behind, so let’s give them a living one. This planet is not ours to destroy. So, I care. And you should too.  

Brilliant prose, Mahi! Well done!!

We at BESI CONGRATULATE you!

Betty Coracas

Author/Artist