“If Nature isn’t kept healthy, humans won’t survive,” (naturespeaking.org). This simple issue, which is continually compounded each and every day, it turns out isn’t so simple at all. The evolution of our species seems to have brought us, as a human race, to a place full of entitlement. What we want – we take. Have we become too selfish? Will there be a point where we have taken too much and given too little? When will it become too late to give back? These questions are all too familiar as many of us have asked ourselves similar things throughout our own journey we call life. Over the course of my life, I have tried to learn the very complex balance of give and take; at times seeming to take too much and other times giving all that
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It seems now more than ever – as we continue to push limits – balance in our world is needed. If even only for us, balance for Nature means everything. Without balance the once rich bio-diverse habitats of our oceans will cease to exist. We continue to actively destroy a food chain system kept in balance by millions of years of evolution.
There are many things contributing to the destruction of our food chain, one of them being over fishing; throwing further off balance the already struggling underwater world of the world’s oceans. Ninety percent of large predatory fish, including tuna, swordfish, and sharks are now gone from our oceans and ninety percent of large whales and sixty percent of the smaller species are also now gone from estuaries and coastal waters. A study done by the Dalhousie, University of Canada projects that by 2048 all of the species we fish today will be extinct (“How Dire Is Overfishing?”). Overfishing has become a huge threat not only to the health of our oceans, but also to the continued health of the fishing industry and our economy. To date, ninety percent of the world’s fisheries …show more content…
The drastic increase of carbon emissions in our atmosphere, also known as Climate Change, creates a plethora of issues for Nature as a whole without doubt and when narrowed down affects the oceans in more ways than one. “Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two environmental stresses: 1) elevated sea surface temperature (that can cause coral bleaching and related mortality), and 2) ocean acidification.” “Experimental evidence shows that increased OA (ocean acidification) and thermal stress combined have a greater harmful effect on both larval success and growth rates than either factor alone, which could make coral recovery even more difficult when both stressors occur simultaneously (and at less severe levels than those required to induce harm by either stressor alone) (“Coral Reefs and People in a High-CO2 World: Where Can Science Make a Difference to People?”). The corals, which make up around one quarter of the oceans habitats, all while keeping our coastal habitats safe from flooding and erosion, are not the ocean’s only habitat being affected by Climate Change. Increased temperature also impacts specie’s habitats as the world’s glaciers and ice caps continue to shrink. “Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both
It seems now more than ever – as we continue to push limits – balance in our world is needed. If even only for us, balance for Nature means everything. Without balance the once rich bio-diverse habitats of our oceans will cease to exist. We continue to actively destroy a food chain system kept in balance by millions of years of evolution.
There are many things contributing to the destruction of our food chain, one of them being over fishing; throwing further off balance the already struggling underwater world of the world’s oceans. Ninety percent of large predatory fish, including tuna, swordfish, and sharks are now gone from our oceans and ninety percent of large whales and sixty percent of the smaller species are also now gone from estuaries and coastal waters. A study done by the Dalhousie, University of Canada projects that by 2048 all of the species we fish today will be extinct (“How Dire Is Overfishing?”). Overfishing has become a huge threat not only to the health of our oceans, but also to the continued health of the fishing industry and our economy. To date, ninety percent of the world’s fisheries …show more content…
The drastic increase of carbon emissions in our atmosphere, also known as Climate Change, creates a plethora of issues for Nature as a whole without doubt and when narrowed down affects the oceans in more ways than one. “Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two environmental stresses: 1) elevated sea surface temperature (that can cause coral bleaching and related mortality), and 2) ocean acidification.” “Experimental evidence shows that increased OA (ocean acidification) and thermal stress combined have a greater harmful effect on both larval success and growth rates than either factor alone, which could make coral recovery even more difficult when both stressors occur simultaneously (and at less severe levels than those required to induce harm by either stressor alone) (“Coral Reefs and People in a High-CO2 World: Where Can Science Make a Difference to People?”). The corals, which make up around one quarter of the oceans habitats, all while keeping our coastal habitats safe from flooding and erosion, are not the ocean’s only habitat being affected by Climate Change. Increased temperature also impacts specie’s habitats as the world’s glaciers and ice caps continue to shrink. “Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both