Trashing Our Planet | Sos

Kia ora people, in social studies we have been learning about the plastic pollution in the ocean and how much it affects the marine life. 

I learned that the ocean has a really big impact on earth. If it got more polluted it would destroy the way we lived and the ocean life. It also said that if this thing still gonna continue, the coral reefs will disappear 50 years from now.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch 

The video that we watch has showed us a lot of informantion about the pollution, it's called seaspiracy, It showed us how badly damaged our ocean is, and how much it affected whales and dolphins. It showed us so many details about the pollution in the ocean and it influences us so much to help. It showed us how cruel human can be, and how much the marine life suffered from this problem. 

I thought everyone should take this topic seriously, because there will be a time that the ocean die, and if the ocean dies, the whale dies and if there are no whales there will be no phytoplankton that are produced, if there are no phytoplankton produced it would reduce the clean air we breathe because it absorbs carbon dioxide four times than

amazon rainforest. With no ocean, we die. I also think this is really messed up and that government should prioritise.

We can help overcome this situation by joining groups that cleans the ocean, reduce the use of plastics of our everyday life and instead use utensils that are made from wood, use your own water bottle and donate to websites that are working on a project to clean the ocean and shores.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans. It is located halfway between Hawaii and California.

The GPGP covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France. 

Using too much plastic causes it to stack up and combined with other rubbishes when it stacks up there will be more and more plastic in our landfill, some of them will be sent to waterways and through the ocean which affects the ocean lives. 

Action	Cause; Why did it happen?	Effect (Short/Long Term); What happened after?
Littering	Lazy/Ignorant	Place becomes messy/Rubbish goes into the waterway.
Daily use of plastic	Plastic stacking up	More rubbish in the rubbish land, then thrown to the ocean.
Banning plastic bags	Plastic Pollution	Less plastic pollution, less plastic in the ocean, Lower the chances of climate change.
Joining groups that cleans the shore/ocean	People don't want more plastic in the ocean.	Helps to clean the environment even in just a bit.
Tones of rubbish being dumped into the ocean	Over using plastic, not using recyclables	Killing the ocean life, causing the corals to die and disappear within years from now.