Gulf Of Mexico. The Cost Of Killing Nature

People have not yet totally destroyed the Gulf of Mexico. In places where the Gulf of Mexico is badly polluted and contaminated, coastal property can barely be given away. Signs caution against entering polluted, high bacteria count waters that will make someone sick. The ocean there is a dead zone.

In Florida, where the waters of the Gulf are still okay, the value of coastal properties is astronomical. But one day, when the gulf waters of Florida are just as badly polluted, smelly and contaminated as the waters in some other states, the property values will plummet. 

None of this has to happen. Unchecked development, greed and selfishness makes this inevitable if nothing changes. 

Everyone wants the perfect lawn and landscaping, no matter the chemical, pesticide and fertilizer load and how this kills the Gulf and its marine life. 

All over the world, development in all it forms, properties, agriculture, industry, tourism, recreation, commercial development, commercial fishing, and so forth, is given precedence over conservation. The more the environment is degraded and contaminated, the more lives are destroyed from a multiplicity of ways, and the less there is a quality of life. 

People are fanatical about their politics, their religions, their hatreds, but not so for the lands and seas upon which all depend.

One day when the ecological disaster that is the Gulf of Mexico in one region moves to the not yet destroyed region where people live blissfully unaware of how close the ecological disaster is and how quickly it can expand, the Florida economy will collapse. This can all still be prevented.

The future of mankind does not depend on politics, economics, religion or any man made endeavor. It depends on what we do to the environment, and what it will do in return.