What tourists want: clean untouched beaches like the ones they see on Instagram or in travel brochures. But those pictures are outdated. By now, the reality in the Caribbean looks quite different. What tourists get: beaches full of rotting seagrass.

A walk on a beach anywhere on earth can pull you down into the depths of black despair like an anchor. There’s plastic wherever you look. In the worst places trash even seems to outnumber the grains of sand. What humans did to nature is the worst crime committed on this planet: the mass extinction of countless species. And with it even our own race, if we continue like this. 

The world is full of horrible news. About the environment, politics, and so forth. The whole globe is in a crisis. Bad for sure. But good, too. Why? Because finally people are looking at the troubles. They are so visible now, that they are not more possible to ignore. But I don’t want delve into the problems. They are here. Obviously. Discussing them will not make the oceans cleaner, feed people or change governments. Lets get up from our computers, out of our office chairs and comfortable homes – it’s time to finally do something.