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Picture- This picture shows just how much garbage and pollution we're putting into our oceans today. The incredible amount is so vast, that he actually needs a boat to sail through the trash, virtually making it a "sea of plastic".
Summary- While sailing the great waters of the Pacific Ocean, Captain Charles Moore, discovered more and more trash as he continued. Some fishing nets here, bottle caps there, it was soon to become known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". It was such a great amount of garbage and human waste that he couldn't go one second without sailing past another cluster of water pollution. He wrote a book on trying to raise awareness on what we're doing to our own oceans that we swim in every day. What he relizes is that the media is trying to hide it from us because people don't want to see that on their TV screens; they'd rather watch a little, yellow sponge walking around the ocean floor with the dumbest starfish you'll ever meet. Some other discoveries he made include how no matter the great amount of awareness people try to send out to us, we just keep throwing more and more trash cans and human waste into our water systems everyday. He's on a mission to restore what was once a tropical paridise for lively fish and sea critters.
Reflection- This doesn't come as a surprize to me that our waters are very polluted with our watse, but to this extent, it's just out of hand. I just don't think people understand the vast amount of junk we dump into the oceans and how the future will look from here. We just think about the now, act first, think later, but that's a HUGE mistake. If we just do whatever we want to do now, there won't even be a future for us. The human race will actually become extinct because we're just killing ourselves out. We need to stop and think just for one second, how to make a small change that will create a big difference and his book can help the world do just that.
Questions
1. What are some ways we can start to restore the ocean to it's original, healthy form?
2. How can you spread the word of our polluted oceans?
3. What are some consiquences that we might face if there is no action taken to help our oceans?
That picture is... disturbing... This does worry me quite a lot. In all those movies with ocean shots, the ocean is always so clean, but in reality, it is not. I feel as though environmentalist are too busy planning actions to help rather than actually doing these actions. This reminds me of the Reading Environmental Laws packet from class. On the last page, the final question asked about why we care and spend time and money in order to preserve biodiversity and to be quite honest, what we are technically doing is trying to fix what we humans caused. Some people might call animals dumb just because they do not know how to work a TV, but just take a look at that TV. We humans have made that for our own entertainment and we hurt the environment in the process. We should have more common sense and learn how to adapt to areas instead of forcing the area to be adaptable. Anyways, one way to help restore the ocean to it's original, healthy form would be to stop littering and dumping things into the ocean. Even stop littering in general, no matter where you are. How do you know that the plastic bag you crumpled up and threw on the ground is not going to be taken away by the wind and carried to the ocean? Another would be, and I know these sorts of things exist, is increase the amount of ocean clean-up events. Maybe nto just the ocean, maybe the rivers since they lead to the ocean and it would allow people that live far from the coast to help out.
ReplyDeleteAll that trash and pollution in our waters are negatively impacting us and the fish that live there. People litter because it is easy to get away with. But when it comes to that extent, that is unacceptable. All this will disrupt the biodiversity in our oceans. One consequence we can face if we don't do anything about this, is that the biodiversity will decrease in our oceans. Then there will be no environmental stability in our waters.
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