North Shore, Coachella @thechosenlyfe holds up several carcasses of the hundreds of thousands of dea
North Shore, Coachella @thechosenlyfe holds up several carcasses of the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that litter the beaches of the Salton Sea. There are very few adjectives that one can use to describe this place in a positive way. There are, however, many to describe its currently reality: eerie, filthy, deathly, quiet, ominous, smelly, sad, dark, swampy, grimly, devastating, hazardous, apocalyptic… you get the idea. This manmade ecological disaster that is the Salton Sea will only get worse as climate change brings higher temperatures to the area. With no water source feeding the lake, the waters continue to recede and in the process making the lake saltier (it’s currently 30% saltier than the Pacific ocean). The higher rates of salinity have made the lake an extreme and inhospitable place for most fish to survive. Every summer, as winds stir the surface of the lake, deoxygenated waters from the depths of the lake rise to the surface (along with soot and pesticides that have long settled on at the bottom of the lake), killing masses of fish. These fish end up on the banks of the receding lake, and rot out in the sun, creating a lasting impression of death in their rotting-egg stench wake that is unberable for many miles around the lake. Said North Shore resident Conchita, “In the peak of summer, we can’t even turn on the air conditioner in our house, as the smell will get inside our house and make my children sick.” Thermal resident Delfina said to us, “During the summer, if we put clothes out on the clothesline to dry and forget to bring it all in after a few hours, the smell will work itself into the fibres of the clothes and reek of dead fish. We have to wash the clothes again if we can. If there’s no money for more detergent, we have to walk around smelling like death. Everybody around here recognizes the smell. It’s horrible.” #coachella2017 #therealcoachella #coachellavalley #csdisruptscoachella #climatejustice -- source link
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