In “What is pollution,” by BBC NEWS (n.d.), the author talks about the fact that now our ocean is not clean; humans have begun to make it worse. But the ocean is a big home for millions of animals to live in. Humans use a lot of different kinds of things to pollute our world, like plastic and litter and some chemicals. So ocean environments have a lot of problems. Now we know the Caribbean is a little place in the ocean; it is polluted, but we need think about the whole ocean, not a part. The ocean is very important for humans; if we lose it, we will lose our future. But humans have three ways of polluting our ocean. “There are over 80% of marine pollution comes from land-based activities,” (WWF, n.d.). Because we have factories, we need mining to build cars, machines and others. So these cause a lot of pollution. And the next way is shipping; people need ships to ship a lot of goods to other countries, and the ship owners let the waste and other trash go into the ocean, they need make more money and do not care the ocean, money decided people’s future. But sometimes oil spills are huge problems; they will kill thousands of animals and humans’ health problems on will follow. And the last one is greenhouse gas. People build the factories and make the greenhouse gas; this can change the world weather’s temperature, so the ocean’s temperature follows and rises up. If the ocean temperature changes a little, it will make a lot of animals die. So we face a lot of problems now, we should stop pollution the sea.
A lot of people still think it doesn’t matter for the ocean; it is really huge; it cleans by itself. But they are wrong. There are a lot of animals that live in the ocean; it is easy for them to die because of pollution. When they die, we have food problems and it will be worse. This is a big problem for humans. But now most people still think the ocean is a giant dustbin. We have a lot of people who already know this is wrong, and they have begun to try to save the ocean, like Greenpeace and other organizations. We still need more people to know and understand how bad it is. These let people know what kind of problem we will have if we do not stop to polluting the ocean.
The first problem is that sea food causes a food problem. All of people know food is the basic source for people to survive. People need food and a lot of countries close to ocean and people need food from the ocean. But we pollute the ocean, and a lot of animals die. The fishman is difficult to get more fish, because we have no fish anymore. We know the coral crisis is important in the ocean; it is not only beautiful and people can put these at home, but also a lot of fish think these are their home and they live there to get food and have baby. But in the article, “Coral Crisis: Global warming, trawling, pollutants threaten the world’s coral population,” the author tells us ‘About 70% of the world’s coral reefs have been adversely affected by rising water temperatures. And about 20% have been damaged beyond repair’. This example shows us the ocean is not only important for us but also important for animals. Now the world food problem is very serious problem for humans, a lot of people have no enough food to eat and then they think the ocean is their last choice to get food. We will face the problem if we lose the coral, we will have a world food problem and a lot of people will die because of have no enough food to survive, at the end of we will lose our future.
The second problem is the sea pollution causes an animal problem; the ocean is a living space for millions of animals. But in the article ‘Pollution’ the author tell us, “Factories and farmers nutrient pollution from sewage discharges and agriculture can result in unsightly and possibly dangerous "blooms" of algae in coastal waters,” they will use all of the Oxygen and then there will have no animals live in it. When we polluting the ocean, we cause two ways to kill animals, and future human will know how badly it is. When animals die out in this area, the water smile will be real bad. In the future human will not only pollute the ocean, it also causes the air pollution. Offshore drilling platform is another problem, people just want to have more money, and stop think environment, money turns human’s head, benefit let human forget everything. So this is real dangerous for human. Injures someone causes self infliction, this is a warming, and human need be more careful now.
The third one is the human health problem, and it is the most important for us. People need pay a lot of money to take care of themselves. When people need mining for money and let economic develop, and we have a lot of chemical factories; most of the dirty water have a lot of bad things will go into the ocean, these cause the water to be polluted very badly. And do you want to eat this fish from a dirty place? Nobody wants to eat it, because it is real bad, and most chemical will go to the human body and we will have a health problem, so this causes the food problem too. In the history of Japan, there is one thing a lot of people will never forget that tragedy. Japan is an island country, most people eat sea food. But a lot of chemical factories dumped a lot of chemical into water, and later ‘Minamata Disease” cause a lot of sick and die. This is a good example to warming people must stop polluting the ocean. Because at the end of it will let ourselves have health problem. And the oil spills will cause a lot of human health problems too, like in Alaska, people cost a lot of money to fix that big problem. So we need to stop it now to think more about our future.
My opponents say that our ocean pollution is ok. Our ocean has been polluted for a long time, but this is just a part of the ocean. A lot of people think our ocean is very big, and most places in the earth are ocean, so we have just polluted a little part, and the ocean can clean itself, so we just can continue to do that, it doesn’t matter for the ocean. Now, this is totaling wrong. We have polluted it faster than the ocean can clean itself. The ocean is polluted by human just time. When we polluting the ocean, which means we try to let ourselves in trouble. Lose the ocean; later a lot of people will face hungry. When people polluted the ocean, another way to say is the food is can not be eat. The food problem, the animals’ problem and our health problem are the good example to show us. If people continue polluting the ocean, the earth everything will be change, at that time people try to save the ocean is too late, and the ocean will attack us and show her power to us. So it is time to say we need stop polluting the ocean, nobody want to face these problems, do not let the ‘The day after tomorrow’ be our future lives.
In conclusion, the ocean has a problem now, because of humans. We need to think to save the world live hood and save the ocean, because sea pollution will cause a world food problem, and it will cause animals’ problems and later human health will have problems too. So this is very serious for human. But a lot of people still think that the ocean is too big, and it doesn’t matter if it is polluted, but they will change soon; we have begun to face a lot of problems. , when people lose their health, they will think they need change, but at that time it is too late. Now we need saving the ocean before we have health problem, or it will be too late for us. The ocean is very important, we save the ocean as same as saving ourselves.
References
The Young Peoples Trust for the Environment (n.d.). Sea pollution. Retrieved June 10,2008 from http://www.ypte.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/sea_pollution.html.
WWF (n.d.). Problems: Ocean pollution. Retrieved June 10, 2008, from http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/problems/pollution/index.cfm.
Greenpeace (n.d.) Pollution. Retrieved June 10, 2008, from http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution
BBC (n.d.). What is sea pollution? Retrieved June 10, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_3959000/3959577.stm.
BBC (2008, February 15). Caribbean Sea under threat. Retrieved June 10, 2008 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2008/02/080215_caribbeansea.shtml.
Loft’ K (2008). Coral Crisis: Global warming, trawling, pollutants threaten the world’s coral population. Retrieved May 27, 2008 from http:.// www. Journainow.com.
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