Save The Oceans, Feed The World ! By Jackie Savitz

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Due to the human population increasing dramatically and food resources are running out, will our human race still be existing in another hundred years if our food sources are decreasing at this rate? On a website called “ted.com”, there is a video called “Save the oceans, feed the world!” that was filmed on October 2013. A woman in the video is a marine biologist, who name is Jackie Savitz and she gave a speech about the facts, benefits, and the reasons why everyone should save the oceans. According to Jackie Savitz, the oceans’ fishes bring a lot of advantages for our people. Jackie also says that when the population increases, the pressure of the demanding of food will gets worse. Therefore, we all must save the oceans so we can feed our …show more content…
She also mentioned that if our population keep increasing to nine or ten billions people in the future, the food resources will get lower than the demand of our human race is and that will bring a lot of pressure for everybody. Next, she used causes and effects about climate change, due to her reasons, climate change can cause change in rainfall patterns. Changed in rainfall patterns can cause drought in the Midwest and Central Europe and flood in other places. Because of the change of climate, it making it harder for human land to increase food production which bring us back to square one which is the oceans. After brought up the causes and effects of climate change, Jackie Savitz used graphs that have the number of fishes in the oceans to show that the oceans food resources had helped our people from hunger until the 1980s, the number of fishes in the oceans are dropping down dramatically. Then she started to discuss about different ways that human can save the fishes in the oceans. There are three ways for people to follow to save the oceans, according to Jackie Savitz said the three ways are “We need to set quotes or

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