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Linda Wightman's avatar

Hope is a good thing.

I'm not one to panic over changes in the environment, having lived long enough to see plenty of natural ebb and flow in my own lifetime, let alone over longer time spans. But we'd be foolish not to consider mass die-offs as possible warnings, and ask, "Why?" My husband watched the marine life along the Connecticut Shore go from vibrant and delicious in his childhood to sickly and inedible. But as pollution levels dropped significantly, there's been a comeback. We're eating everything but the bivalves now, and I have hope that someday we will once again be digging our own clams for something besides bait.

Nature, like the human body, can do a fantastic job of recovering from a bad situation -- if we give it a chance.

All that to say -- thanks for a ray of hope in an increasingly irrational world.

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Anne Wilson's avatar

Here’s hope! I live on Whidbey Island and last summer I was in a little skiff with my grandchildren checking crab pots on the Saratoga Passage when we decided to circle a huge erratic exposed by low tides. It was covered, I mean dripping, with thousands and thousands of sea stars! All colors and all sizes from the size of dimes to full grown!

My friend noted that there had been few, if any, in years past. Nature’s resiliency manifested!

Wish I could share pictures of the rock. Having lived all my life near the ocean it was one of the most incredible sights I have seen!

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