Global Awareness Classes 11, 17, 18 & 19

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Save the Ocean

Save the Ocean

We all know the ocean is very dirty and polluted nowadays. We also know the fish are disappearing because of humans. There are many types of pollution in the ocean and we should learn more about this situation and think about how to change it.

First of all, we must stop throwing trash into the ocean, especially plastic and cans. These kinds of things may not seem to many people to have a great affect to the ocean, but there are actually huge plastic islands which are floating in the world's oceans.

Secondly, we must stop allowing factories to dump their industrial waste into the oceans. The best way to do this is to make the company pay a lot of money (meaning penalty), when they dump waste into the ocean. Also, the nuclear electric plants should be built safer.

Thirdly, the fish are disappearing very rapidly because of the plastic, the polluted water, and over-fishing. I think fishing limits must be enforced in order to solve this problem.

In conclusion, if we work all together, we can clean our oceans, and we can once again have the type of oceans that we had in the past. This will require much support from the citizens and more support from the government.

Letter to Abby

Dear Abby,

We are JYPK, in class 18 GLPS, and we are writing a letter to your for advice.We planned to go to the ocean for fun, but we found some information that says there is a lot of trash in the ocean. So we canceled our travel plans, and we are so sad about that!

We want to play in the ocean, and we want to make our ocean clean.What can we do about this? It is so sad........
Thank you.
From JYPK

Dear JYPK,

I'm so sorry to hear that. I suggest you make some signboards that say "Do not throw trash in the ocean."

And you can write letters and ask the ocean manager to send the letters to all visitors. Also, how about making a "Save the Ocean" club/website/cafe?

Finally, you can make a "Save the Ocean" Youtube video and share the channel's hyperlink with your friends.

I hope you are successful!

From Abby

Interview with a fisherman

We are the Art team of class 18. Today we interviewed a fisherman about the ocean so that we could learn about the problems of the ocean. Let's think about the ocean while reading the interview.

Q1. How many fish do you catch in one day?
A. Not enough! Many years ago I caught many fish everyday.

Q2. How many dead fish do you see in one day?
A. So many! They are everywhere!

Q3. Can you imagine no ocean life?
A. When I was younger, I couldn't imagine that, but nowadays, sadly, I can imagine that.

Q4. Have you seen trash in the ocean?
A. Are you joking? Everyone sees trash in the ocean. It is everywhere-plastic especially!

Q5. Do you ever catch trash when you are fishing?
A. Yes, especially when I use fishing nets.

Q6. How can we clean the ocean?
A. Just stop throwing trash and industrial pollution into the ocean. Also, we can remove some of the pollution that is already there. The government must punish polluters severely!

Q7. When will the world finally realize just how important the ocean is to us?
A. When there is no more fish to eat!

We hope you are interested in this topic. Also, we want you to know about this problem and make more people know about this problem. Then, when you go to ocean to play, don't litter, and please remember to pick up trash in the ocean. So, we must do something to stop adding trash to the ocean, and people of the world should clean up the trash.

Thank you for reading our interview!