Mission Earth

                  This summer I saw a video of a turtle that had a straw in its nose. The people in the video were helping by pulling the straw out, but it wasn’t easy. Not only was the turtle pulling away but was also shutting it’s eyes, sneezing, breathing heavily, hissing and bleeding. It was not fun to watch this video, watching it reminded me of Mission Blue. Mission Blue is a documentary of Dr. Sylvia Earle’s campaign to save the oceans. This documentary has opened up my eyes even more to the extensive damage that the environment is going through.

                  By doing one thing, we cause another. For example pollution causes infertile land, global warming, human health and environment degradation. In a food chain, taking one thing away can affect everything from the bottom to the top. What I am saying is that we take many things from earth, and while we are making an effort to restore the beauty step by step, we could do a lot better if more people were informed and interested of the negative effects we are causing.

                  History is taught so that we learn from mistakes, so we won’t do them again and progress. Many things have occurred environmentally; for example, there is 20,000 oil spills reported each year, and no matter how much they say they are controlling it, they still affect everything in the ocean life. I know that oil spills are a great disaster, so why we are still allowing them to happen and go on as if oil spills does not affect anything when they do. There are many things we need to do. The change can start with one person, a small change in their individual life can make a big difference. It all takes determination.

                  I believe that that we can change the situation that our environment is in. I believe we can raise the numbers of endangered animals, so that zoos will not be the only place we have to see them. I believe we can lower the contamination/pollution in our daily lives. I believe we can save our environment, save what it provides to us, preserve its beauty, and make it better. We can do this, but we have to work together, not as a state, nation or country, but as a world, to make some changes in our lives. If we work together, we can save the environment. We can save Earth.