Have you ever been swimming in an ocean, and you notice a plastic bag or bottle floating in the water? There are many ways people can pollute the oceans. For starters, oil tankers spill oil into the water (Doc 2.). Boats sink (Doc 2), and eventually the boats break up into pieces and spread across the ocean floor (OI). Next, people dump sewage and garbage from boats and on beaches (Doc 2).…
Because of these things not being properly disposed of it is finding its way back to the ocean and is killing marine wildlife. In the chapter Humes talks about Mary Crowley who is older lady who sees the problems of the trash in our oceans. She fills so strongly about…
While there are multiple causes of marine pollution, some of them are “ land-based activities, ocean-based pollution has its own distinct geographical patterns” (p. 3). This is just a few cause of marine pollution; however, many people would not really think something…
Many people do not understand how an imbalance in the ocean can affect the world around them. In the article “Red Tides and Dead Zones,” Andrew Solow talks about how important it is to conserve and protect the ocean ecosystem. People cannot fathom that the most widespread environmental problem in the ocean is caused by an excess of chemical nutrients. This is due to a wide range of human activities such as: waste disposal, costal development, fossil fuel use, and the intensification of agriculture (Solow). Once these nutrients are in the ocean, they stimulate the growth of phytoplankton.…
In the article “Swimming Through Garbage” written by Lewis Pugh which was published in the New York Times in 2014 we learn of Pugh’s journey in swimming through the seven seas, Pugh’s is an advocate for the preservation of our oceans around the world. Pugh’s purpose of this article is to describe and persuade readers about larger issue at hand while informing readers to the health concerns of the oceans around the world. What he finds later is that he seriously underestimated the true severity of this issue all around the world. Pugh’s supports his ideas by giving specific examples of what he experienced firsthand while doing these swims all around the world from the different oceans he swam through. For example, during his swim in the black sea he observed Mnemiopsis which according to the article is an invasive species of jellyfish that rapidly reproduces and allegedly creates havoc on the ecosystem.…
Imagine a big, cloudy pile of garbage . . . Plastic pieces of all different colors, decaying shoes, dangerous fishing gear that are all rusty and jagged, car tires, truck tires, tractor tires, and even dead animals floating in the ocean. Well, that’s basically what the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is. And unfortunately, sea creatures get tangled in fishing nets, eat the garbage, and get sick from the water being contaminated.…
Although, the trash won't completely disappear it will decrease the amount of debris in the ocean making it more livable for all organisms. The Ocean Vacuum can clean the ocean's plastic from spreading and causing further harm to species in the ocean ecosystem. As species are able to thrive, biologists and researchers can learn more about underwater life. By removing trash from the sea The Ocean Vacuum could prevent ecosystems and the animals from becoming extinct. Scientists will gain a better understanding of the full effect on how both underwater life and the impact of trash at a global level.…
Slowly but surely with conspicuous evidence we are noticing abnormalities in natural resources coming from our oceans due to pollution, waste dumping, and plastic. The Earth…
An example where trash has been going into ocean is in an article named New Plastic Garbage Patch Found in The South Pacific Could Be 1.5 Times Larger Than Texas. In this article, a person they call captain Charles Moore discovered a polluted patch of plastic about 1.5 times larger than Texas and two times larger than California(Mosbergen). In an article that came from Time talked about how plastics been going into our oceans and researches did calculations that say 5 to 13 million metric tons of plastic went into the ocean in the year 2010 and most of it came from the people who lived 30 miles away from the coast(Here's How Much Plastic Ends Up In the World's Oceans | Time. Com). I think this is terrible because many sea creatures that comes among this waste has a big chance of getting caught with something in the water that can cause the sea creature to die or to get…
Water pollution in California is a major issue that has been one of the main causes for them to ban plastic bags. The ocean water has raised a big health concern in California because people are swimming in water that has trash floating around them. Banning plastic bags is one of the most important things that have happened to the California environment because it will reduce the amount of plastic that is going into the Pacific Ocean. The water in California has a very big impact in what has caused the great pacific garbage patch. This has a major impact on California because people now have to worry about what is around them while being in the water.…
The culling of sharks is not the only way to ensure that the ocean is safe. Sharks have populated the earth for over four hundred million years and now, people want to remove them from our oceans [Williamson, 2015]. The introduction of shark culls will allow people to freely kill sharks in an unorthodox manner, threatening the lives of many shark species. Despite what the media depicts of them, most people do not know that sharks are vital when it comes to maintaining the ocean ecosystem and maintaining the ocean that human kind continuously abuse.…
Humans have had the luxury of using the Oceans natural resources since the beginning of our time. With the advancements in technology, humans have continued to develop and utilize the Oceans resources at a pace that may make the Ocean unstable. We need the Ocean to be sustainable for our future and the future of the Ocean ecosystem. According to Virapat (2011), “The economic and social welfare of humankind depends to a large degree on the oceans’ productive sectors and services. The manner in which humans exploit those resources and services, have been anything but humane” (p.2).…
The way we neglect our ocean with heavy amounts of pollution can potentially affect our lives in a negative manner. Driving cars and the use of plastic is essential to our daily lives, but we use them without the concern for how they are affecting the habitats on Earth. Some people think that the chance that they are doing harm to the ocean is less important to them than cost or inconvenience of fixing a pollution problem. Through sources from researchers and scientists, they have found evidence of pollution caused by the two essential commodities in our lives, plastic and burning fossil fuels. Environmentalists have found solutions to reduce the plastic waste in our ocean as well as attempting to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere…
Trash that gets dumped into the Atlantic by Boston and New York. Some of that trash gets carried back into the harbor by the waves. Let?s ask ourselves, what the trash is doing to the animals we love in the ocean like sharks, dolphins, whales, porpoises, and other marine…
Plastic is a convenient, strong and universally important product utilized throughout the world. However, despite plastic’s convenience and prevalence, which consumers appreciate, it is a devastating reality that the convenience of use of plastic in so many household goods comes at a very high price for our earth and the beings that live on it. With increasing amounts of plastic polluting the oceans and dangerous chemicals being emitted from plastic products, plastic is a hazard to many animals, humans and the environment. Plastic is a useful product that may be virtually impossible to eliminate completely from our daily lives.…