Dead Sea is dying

Ever since I was a kid I have been enamoured by this sea, 1,300 feet below actual sea level, hidden in the deepest valley of the world, in which you just cannot drown. The water of the Dead Sea is that salty. That you just don't drown. You can read a news paper lying down on the water there.
It's in Jordan. And it stil looks so mysterious, with rays of sunlight sneaking out of the clouds in the horizon perpetually, almost like a perpetual halo.

And it's shrinking. Shrinking by a meter per year. They say in the next three decades, it would have become nothing more than a dry dead sea.

And then locals will remember how the beaches of this extra salty thick sea were once packed with foreigners, who would bathe in its rich mineral mud, which evidently has (skin) healing properties.

Duh! The sea is closest to all the deep Earth's minerals and, most visibly, the Earth's salt, which cakes at its shore like snowdrifts.

It's just beautiful.

And it's dying. Dying as we speak, as we write, as we smile, as we make money, as we take care of our children, as we battle out wars to gain power and some sorta pride.

Who cares? It's a question. Not a statement.

Who cares?

It's evaporating, massively. The Dead Sea relies extensively on the fresh water of the Jordan River, which was once upon a time a wide river and now is "just a contaminated trickle".

And the fact that the Jordan river is now being totally diverted (BY MAN) for irrigational purposes, is against nature. It's not how it was supposed to be.

Man is not supposed to divert seas, divert rivers. When will they understand?

And so the Dead Sea is dying, evaporating faster than ever - a meter every friggin year.

The Dead Sea now is nothing but a dying example. There's nothing anyone can do to save it. We've killed it. Already. We can just sit back and now watch it die.

Probably tourism will increase now. Those that haven't seen it, will now flock to Jordan to see the sea where jesus was baptised, and make use of its skin healing mud. They'll shoot their kids playing in the sea on the handicams, take loads of pictures and when it goes dry, they'll show it to their neighbours and friends - "hey, been there done that."

Probably news channels and newspapers will throw in a campaign of stories, a column of sorts, probably a few greenpeace activists will come forth and protest... and then 30 years later, when that last drop disappears, we'll all get back to work... corruption, wars, battlefields, politics, the rat-race... all for the Power... all for the Money.

It's all 'bout the money. It's all bout the dum dum da ra dum dum...

Congratulations people... we're all now clinically dead.

When we choose to finally give up our bodies and then go up to heaven, we'll play a small little game. All of us.

That who could manage to collect the maximum amount of money down here. He'll be the winner.

Yea Baby!

Eeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!