In this week’s blog post, I attempted to follow Sarah Vowell’s writing style as I wrote about the plastic polluting the world’s oceans.
Recently,
a science class I am taking briefly discussed how our garbage,
specifically plastic, pollutes our oceans. I looked at a gruesome picture from
the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which showed the effects of plastic waste
being carelessly dumped into water. It is an issue that some people try to ignore
to focus on human development without taking the lives of sea animals into
account. The picture was of a baby bird split open to reveal a pile of colorful
plastic items that were thrown away. The dead animal's mother wrongfully fed it
plastic that was expected to be food, maybe jellyfish. Personally, I think that we
tend to forget what we discard. You know that old, bright tinted toy your kid
grew out of last year? The one you threw away? Yeah, that's the one. It could
be cutting off some poor animal's breathing right now. At least it isn't
sitting at home, taking up space and collecting dust, I guess.
Anyway, there are so many other cases that
show what our waste does to the world, but we still push it away, even if it
directly affects us. Air pollution? No big deal. Just wait until the cloud of
dirt travels to another country. Water Pollution? That's what filters were created
for. Forget about it. I believe that we should find a way to coexist with the
environment, rather than destroying it for our benefit. Ideally, there is
still hope left for that change.
