Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has called on everyone to do what they can personally to reduce the pollution that is choking our creeks, rivers and coastlines and is drifting out to sea to be carried by the currents elsewhere.
While closing the celebrations for World Oceans Day in New York, Bainimarama has urged everyone to make this fight personal and band together with their families and friends and become warriors for change.
Bainimarama says if they see anyone littering, they should tell them that what they are doing is wrong.
He has urged the people that if they see litter on or near a beach, to pick it up and dispose it properly.
Bainimarama says people should take a basket to the supermarket or shop and say no when someone offers them a plastic bag.
The Prime Minister says a special effort must be made to dispose of plastic bottles properly so they do not end up at sea.
Bainimarama says we do not have the right in our own lifetimes to squander the earth’s resources, just as we do not have the right to alter the ecological balance or have an adverse impact on climate.
The Prime Minister told the participants that their aim should be to make all 7.5 billion people on earth defenders of our seas, protectors of the great natural asset that we have inherited and merely hold in trust for future generations.
