How Ocean Pollution Impacts Earth

On Planet Earth, Water is the indefinite one of the most, if not the most necessary resource to all life. Not only is it crucial for staying alive, but also society today depends on water for nearly everything. Water is used in household necessities such as plumbing, bathing, dishwashing, and laundry and even other necessities like baking. It is even becoming a luxury among society now a days which is insane since most people take advantage of water for example take 1 hour long showers.

My point is that water is very important to us on earth but every day we trash and pollute our earth in some many ways. The amount of pollution in the ocean today is truly disturbing when one realizes that the ocean is the most important water supply to daily life and we humans just trash it like nothing. I will inform you on several of the ways in which the ocean is polluted, how this pollution affects our society and living resources, and some potential solutions to help prevent future pollution.

One of the main causes of the polluted marines is the wastes and toxins that get thrown into the ocean. Records show that 850 million meters cubed of liquid and solid wastes have been dumped into the ocean in the past 85 years. Not only does our population toss these solid wastes into the water, but the ocean deals with random debris from natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and volcanoes which is not anyone’s fault besides mother nature.

Since the late 1960s, impacts by humanity on the environment, particularly the degradation of air, water, and soil, have received widespread public attention and levels of funding to perform scientific studies. It is almost pointless that these scientific studies are being done, however, because the amount of wastes being put into the ocean is only increasing, which contradicts the purpose. The public already knows its a problem, but nobody is willing to stop it, mainly because they don’t know what to do with the waste. What they also do not realize is that they are killing the marine world, one toxin at a time.