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Saltwater oceans cover about 71% of the Earth’s surface. Because we don’t consume this water, we often forget that this ocean water is a precious resource. We ignore the need to conserve this resource as much as the Earth’s other natural environments, such as the trees, air, Amazon rainforest, glaciers and the desert. People don’t think about the consequences of destroying the Earth’s oceans.

“The rolling of the sea across the planet creates over half our oxygen, drives weather systems and natural flows of energy and nutrients around the world, transports water masses many times greater than all the rivers on land combined, and keeps the Earth habitable. Without the global ocean there would be no life on Earth.” ~Greenpeace

“Coral reefs are made predominately of stony corals and supported by the limestone skeleton they excrete. These rainforests of the sea are home to a quarter of all marine fish species. In addition to the variety of marine life they support, coral reefs are also immensely beneficial to humans, buffeting coastal regions from strong waves and storms, providing millions of people with food and jobs and promoting advances in modern medicine.” ~Jennifer Horton, HowStuffWorks.com

Oceans do impact on people – on our food, jobs and weather. People populate less than 30% of the Earth’s surface, but we affect the entire planet by leaching toxins into the soil and dumping our waste, oil and gasoline into the oceans.

Let’s think about that for a second. Men live on less than 30% of the Earth’s surface. We’re outnumbered by land animals, birds, fish, marine mammals, plants, both above and below the ocean’s surface. Insects. Reptiles. Yet we’re callously eating our way through their homes and their natural habitat through the belief of divine right. Simply because man has the greatest ability to spread himself across the Earth’s surface we’re somehow superior? Somehow we have the right to use these irreplaceable resources with no regard for the lives we’re going to be affecting?

“[It is] immoral to damage needlessly a remote and largely unknown assemblage of organisms-even if they are out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and apparently of little importance to the general ecological processes in the ocean-through negligent and ignorant abuse of the oceans.” ~Martin Angel, “Ocean Trench Conservation”, 1982

If People Destroy the Oceans, We Destroy Not Only Ourselves But Other Innocent Lives. What Can We Do To Stop This?

It’s essential to publicize the need to conserve our oceans. It’s also necessary to take action rather than just talking about it – if talking worked politicians and lobbyists would have fixed the problem a long time ago. We need to take action now and make a real difference to the future of our oceans.

Greenpeace and organizations like them are taking great steps to promote ocean conservation, but they can’t do this alone. Ordinary people like you and me also need to take responsibility for preserving our oceans. Here are some steps we can take:

1 Protest the dumping of trash and wastes into the ocean. The ocean is designed to manage itself, but it can’t do that if we’re pumping it full of junk.

2 Support marine conservation areas and steer clear of protected nesting areas.

3 Household cleaning products leach into the soil and eventually end up in the water supply. So reduce the number of household pollutants that you use and use natural products as much as you can.

4 Carpool where you can. Ride a bike. What you pump into the air isn’t doing our marine life any favors either.

5 Use paper products rather than plastic ones.

6 Recycle as much as you possibly can.

It’s your responsibility as much as anyone’s to keep our oceans healthy for the next generation to enjoy.

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