Ocean Pollution
Pollution has a big effect on are oceans. There's so many causes and it all leads up to one effect which is pollution. The ocean covers up ninety-seven percent of are world's water supply. Seventy percent of the oxygen we breathe is produced by some marine plants. So clearly ocean and its water is are main thing that keeps us alive. Pollution is unhealthy and horrible because there's a lot of plastic in the oceans, land based pollutants, and the careless human interventions.
First off there's way too much plastic in the ocean that causes pollution. All of this stuff is caused by natural and manmade pollution. We have produced more plastic then we have in the last one-hundred years. The plastic kills fish, birds, marine animals, and sea turtles. Now that is just horrible that so many animals are dying because of pollution tried to stop pollution instead of causing it?
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but were also losing are food supplies, but that's not the point the of this essay.
The main effect of this plastic is pollution. In passage 3 it states that ” We have so much to thank the oceans for; however, they are threatened daily by natural and manmade pollution. Ocean pollution comes in many forms, but the largest factor affecting the oceans is plastic”.
On the other hand the second big cause is land based pollutants which is oil, septic sludge, dirt, and trash. Septic sludge is like household wastewater. The oil can affect people's health and the animals. It can poison and contaminate are water and the marine animals. In passage 2 it states that” Although oil spills pollute the ocean, they only account for approximately 12% of the oil polluting the ocean. The rest reaches the oceans from land, through drainage”. There's also a huge garbage site off the coast of California twice as large as the state of Texas which its garbage washes into the sea polluting
it. Last but not least, theres the carless human interventions meaning dams and BP oil spills. In passage 1 it states that “The careless human intervention has badly affected the oceanic ecosystem, threatening the existence of several other species on earth, including human beings. Accidents such as BP oil spill and Samarco dam collapse are the striking instances to see how badly the human activities can destroy the rich ecosystem of water bodies”. Its not that we dont care, its that we dont relize the things were doing and the effect of them. In conclusion, the main causes for pollution is plastic in the oceans, land based pollutants, and the careless human interventions. Don't you agree that the things weeeee do is causing problems in are world? Do you think things would be better if we
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Microplastics are often consumed by smaller fish, who are then consumed by bigger fish where the plastic continues to collect. Humans then proceed to eat the bigger fish, leading to us consuming plastics as well. This illustrates that in the end, everything we do to wildlife we do to ourselves. Overall, the documentary suggests that marine life is worth protecting because it is not ours to destroy: everyone on the coast will suffer. Essentially, we are trapping ourselves. If the path we are on continues, the amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh all of the fish in the sea by 2050. This is a shocking, and devastating, statistic. It is also important to note that it seldom is the communities themselves using the ocean as a dumping ground. The plastic ends up in water systems and eventually gets brought to shore by the tide. It is not just litter that was dropped on the
Which means their obviously bad for the aquatic marine life environment & are cause many different forms of damage for them & us as one. On p.g. 23 of The New York Times upfront magazine “Birds,fish, sea turtles, & others are getting tangled in plastic bags or mistake them for food & choke”. Someone else might argue that they could the plastic bags in landfills instead of oceans. But that counter- argument is flawed because you’re just polluting by burning plastic which is bad on our part we’re not doing our part to support & taking care of the earth. Plastic in the ocean isn't just bad for plants & animals but for humans too because of the food chain some of us eat animals as a meat source such as aqua marine life like fish. If the fishermen catch fish that have been eating plastic then it's in our food supply if we eat that fish it's gonna be bad for us so many will end up getting sick from the plastic inside of the fish then what will we do our aqua marine food supply will go down the drain we couldn’t eat the fish since it's basically contaminated with plastic that we’re dumping there instead of trying to fix it & getting rid of plastic bags for good for the good of the earth. We’re causing damage towards the earth by dumping all that plastic into the ocean which damages our water supply it’ll poison us although we clean the water it depends on how big the plastic particles are, it’ll make us sick & sense it’s been lying in the oceans could bring in new pathogens &
The article indicates that the influences of oceans pollution that made by humans and caused by a phenomenon called “dead zones”. First of all, there is a great amount of plastic in the ocean which causes massive consequences for animals of the entire marine food web. On the other hand, “Dead zone” also affect Earth’s oceans. “Dead zones” can formed by many causes, such as natural causes, climate change, along human activities and industrial waste. These is a national problem and humans need to have some regulatory mechanisms. Therefore, it can helps the “dead zones” reduced. The author mentions that the US Environmental
We areresponsible for 80% of it, and if we bring that number down- even just a little bit of it- it will help a lot. Different bans on dumping waste has helped a lot and prevented a possible speed of ocean pollution, and slowed the process down. Different corporations are trying to benifit both the ocean and their companies by recycling usable items and making them into something new. I couldnt figure out why ocean pollution happens, but i found so many different ways it does happen, from land runoff to the tiny microplastic beads in body scrubs.
The plastic apocalypse is upon us. Our oceans are currently burdened by massive expanses of floating plastic products and shreds extending farther than the eye can see in multiple locations. The biggest of these, located in the North Pacific Ocean,1 is known by many as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This dangerous collection of trash is surrounded by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre,1 or a series of circling currents located in the Southern Hemisphere that carry plastics and other slow-degrading garbage and trap them inside its bounds.2 This specific Garbage Patch stretches from North America to Japan and the plastic-to-water ratio varies throughout.1 Because of this phenomenon, plastic is being distributed throughout oceans and deposited
This pollution problem is so ubiquitous plastic can be found throughout the marine environment from coastlines to near shore lagoons to remote ocean hotspots where plastics caught up in marine currents. And gathered up into huge garbage patches that swirl
Ocean Pollution is a serious issue in today's global politics. The delicate balance of Earth's ecosystem is put in jeopardy when the ocean is not clean. Problem evolving from ocean pollution directly harm marine life and indirectly affect human health and the Earth's many valuable resources. Ocean Pollution is a Broad term that encpompasses any and all foregin matter that directly or indirectly makes its way into the ocean. This includes everything from the extreme: oil spills, Toxic Waste dumping and industrial dumping-- to the small scael: human activities and basic carelessness. Because the oceans and all other water bodies are invariably, somehow connected, and because they account for 3/4 of the Earth's surface, they are an ideal method of transportation for pollution, allowing the rapid spread of seemingly far away toxins into a river near you! It is increasingly important that we educate ourselves as to what, exactly, ocean pollution is, so that we can identify the causes at their source and take action in small and large ways, and hopefully, prevent this terrible form of pollution from getting any worse than it is today.
85% of ocean water is effected by polluted. Nonpoint source pollution is caused by runoffs is one of the biggest sources of ocean pollution. 80% of the ocean pollution comes from land. According to National Ocean Service, “Nonpoint source pollution includes many small sources, like septic tanks, cars, trucks, and boats, plus larger sources, such as farms, ranches, and forest areas. Millions of motor vehicle engines drop small amounts of oil each day onto roads and parking lots. Much of this, too, makes its way to the sea.”
Our oceans take a large beating every day by the extremely large amount of pollution humans produce. Our society easily dumps their waste into the oceans to dispose of the excessive amount of garbage, sewage, and chemicals, but this small and simple solution is creating an even bigger problem. The way humans dispose of their wastes is causing the death of our beloved marine life. Not only are we killing off our animals, our food source, and our resources, we are also minimizing our usable water. By having a better understanding of the problem on the severe dumping, it will be easier to find ways to help minimize the pollution that is going into the ocean.
Every time we throw away a plastic bottle, drive our cars, and even burn those millions of fossil fuels to operate all those huge factories, there is a chance it will pollute the ocean and eventually affect the way we live. There should be stricter laws regulating human pollution, in order to protect our ocean ecosystem. The ocean is an abundant source of life. It is home to thousands of different creatures, provides a great source of food, and provides the earth with about one half of the oxygen needed to sustain life. National Geographic: Pollution, especially plastic, is a catastrophic problem.
Research from the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography said that species in the ocean consume a projected 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic every year in the Pacific Ocean (Nall, 2014). Pollution of recyclable materials in the oceans is one of the leading causes of why some marine species are nearing extinction. Many authors of articles and books analyzing this topic tend to agree that pollution of our oceans is a problem. The future of this problem is where their ideas tend to differ. The following four literature reviews attempt to demonstrate and support my belief that pollution is getting worse in the ocean and more marine life ecosystems are being affected, but there are things that we as humans can do to change this. Imagine a world where we didn’t have to constantly worry about the vicious cycle of humans affecting animals and then animals in turn affecting us through consumption.
With all this going into our today waters that is used so much many people can get sick off the waste put into the ocean waters. Some time the ocean can handle some waste from pollution out of the air or other forms but there should be limits on what people throw in there drains that is killing off sea life. For example oil from some ones car. Instead of taking the extra second to throw the product or waste away people feel it is right to flush it down a drain or let is fall were it fall. "More than 3 million tons of oil end up in the sea each year, the result of a variety of human activities, most of which take place on land. More than a third is waste oil from city drains - mainly from cars and from factories." Saying that it is only the human life that is polluting the waters.
The toxics in the water which effect the fish and then fishermen caught theses fish and then you eat them can cause some serious health problems. Just one piece of plastic can mess up the whole system of the food chain. First we start out with a fish just swimming along who then comes up on some plastic who then eats this plastic. This fish has know been exposed to a toxic and is carrying it around. Therefore when the fishermen catches it and brings it make to the restranunt and one eats it then that person is eating the toxics, which can cause some health problems. For example, cancer, birth defects, or even immune system problems can be caused from toxics from the plastic found in the ocean. Another health issue it can cause is it can mess up a woman’s hormones, which is not a good thing. As the toxic enter the food chain they become more toxic as time goes on. Plankton, which is at the bottom of the food chain, absorbs the awful toxic very easily. The toxic then settles in their bodies becoming more toxic then before. A smaller animal then eats them and then the toxic level rises. The larger animal can live longer but as time goes on the toxic gets stronger after it has eaten the smaller animal. As the pollution of the world increases pollution increases causing the marine life to decreases due to pollution in the ocean. This causes what is known as the extension of animals such as fish that people eat. One doesn’t really hear many people talk about people being sick in the 1500s but what if one started to think that maybe it is coming from the foods we eat. In that time people grew their own food so they knew what was going in them now a days we have no idea what is going into our mouths are where its coming from. What will people eat if the pollution is killing all their fish they eat? Is the pollution some of the main causes for people having cancer or other
Ocean pollution is a major threat to both marine life and ocean ecosystems. Changes can be made on global and individual scales to make a big impact towards preserving the oceans and saving its marine inhabitants. First off, The majority of pollutants going into the ocean come from activities on land. Natural processes and human activities along coastlines and far inland affect the health of our ocean. One of the biggest sources is called nonpoint source pollution, which occurs as a result of runoff.