Oceans of Pollution is written by Dahr Jamail a journalist from America. He wrote this article to inform the public about how serious the pollution in oceans is getting and just how fast it is growing. The use of logical statistics and quotes show that Jamail has put research into this article to make sure the facts are true. With the amount of people doing research and tracking the dead zones around the world there should be more that humans can do to help with the problem, yet still the problem is not getting better. Many animals are dying and oxygen is being lost from all of the chemicals put into the ocean. The number of dead zones continue to grow yearly. The pollution keeps getting worse rather than better. It is time for humans to start realizing what amazing things the ocean does for them and start to help the ocean get back to its original health.
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This information shows the importance of ocean pollution and how it effects each human as well as the animals living in the sea. Ocean pollution has been growing outrageously over the years “Recently, the dead zone has been roughly the same size as US states of Connecticut or New Jersey, and between 2008 and 2011 has grown as large as 17,348 sq. km (Jamail). There is 407 dead zones that cover 250,000 sq. km of the globe. This is leading to fisheries closing down, or having to go father out into the ocean to find fish since the dead zones are taking away the oxygen so fish don’t survive. The second largest dead zone is located in the Gulf of Mexico and was discovered in the 1980’s by Dr Nancy Rabalais a marine scientist. Dr Rabalais has been observing this dead zone yearly since she first found it when it was only 9,774 sq. km, but since then it has grown along with the other dead zones. This is time for a change and for people to realize how this pollution is effecting global warming and the oxygen of the
This information shows the importance of ocean pollution and how it effects each human as well as the animals living in the sea. Ocean pollution has been growing outrageously over the years “Recently, the dead zone has been roughly the same size as US states of Connecticut or New Jersey, and between 2008 and 2011 has grown as large as 17,348 sq. km (Jamail). There is 407 dead zones that cover 250,000 sq. km of the globe. This is leading to fisheries closing down, or having to go father out into the ocean to find fish since the dead zones are taking away the oxygen so fish don’t survive. The second largest dead zone is located in the Gulf of Mexico and was discovered in the 1980’s by Dr Nancy Rabalais a marine scientist. Dr Rabalais has been observing this dead zone yearly since she first found it when it was only 9,774 sq. km, but since then it has grown along with the other dead zones. This is time for a change and for people to realize how this pollution is effecting global warming and the oxygen of the