Depletion of Marine Food Sources: When Do We Take Action

Check out this Article!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/opinion/choking-the-oceans-with-plastic.html?_r=1#story-continues-1

        Someone shared this really interesting article with me. It explains the issues concerning the tons of plastic debris found in our oceans. After reading through it, I thought it fit in pretty well with the security of food and the environment. Our oceans are homes to much of our marine food sources and we take for granted the sizes of our massive oceans and assume that sea life isn't affected by our carelessness. Think about it, if one person at one point in their life thought for a second that dropping one little piece of plastic debris wouldn't kill anyone so dropped it on the ground or in the ocean instead of throwing it away, would we say that they were wrong? What if every person in the world dropped a little piece of debris in our oceans at one point in their life, would we even have a beach to swim in? We are constantly looking for ways to increase and secure our food supply by protecting our environment, but at the same time we lack focus on issues like these where we are the culprits hindering our own efforts. The production and use of plastic is global, and I just think that if we were making more of an effort to work together and clean up these oceans we could then, at the very least, secure marine food sources for our future. 

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