Year round you can find me in the south florida waters snorkeling and spearfishing at all hours of the day. Coral reefs line the shores of south florida from orlando all the way to the tip of the keys. Coral reefs are a magnificent beauty when seen in person. All the fish going about their day, the coral glistening in the water and the anemones swaying back and fourth.
What many people don't know is that year after year our Coarl Reefs are depleting due to global warming. Year after year the reefs loose color and become smaller. Fish are dying out and some reefs are becoming lifeless. In a single year 16 percent of all reefs were wiped out. Due to "Bleaching", which is when a coral expels the colorful algae inside, coral is loosing its color and becoming less inhabited by fish.
As a nation we need to come together and stop harming our earth with global warming. Many changes are small but in future generations to come their could be no reefs left. I hope that people will go "Green" and use more ecofriendly tools just to help save our few coral reefs that are left and all the colorful interesting fish that inhabitant them.
Hey Ben! I love how you talk about your love for the places you spend your summers. The reason why I'm an environmental science major is because I love my home, I see it being degraded constantly and I want to change that. I think the best way to ultimately get people to go green is to make them feel a certain attachment to places and make them realize that they have the power to save beautiful places like south Florida.
ReplyDeletePeople should take more responsibility and have more respect for the world that they live in. It is very beautiful and filled with amazing things. It is a shame when you see things like this occurring, especially when we are the ones who can change it through our personal, day to day actions.
ReplyDeleteJust to bring your fascinating experiences and insights back around to something we have been talking about: one of the main reasons for interest in a switch to consumption based taxation is that this will have a much more direct effect on greenhouse emissions. And of course, a tax on actual emissions would be a particularly targeted form of consumption tax (though a more general one would also help to some extent).
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