The Fear Of Polution In Icebergs : The Fear Of Pollution

Our oceans are vast and they are some of the most mysterious and diverse places on earth. They provide food and shelter for countless organisms, they also provide a key factor to life; water. Unfortunately, pollution is dangering Marine life and slowly destroying the oceanic ecosystem. We have always had this notion that because of the sheer size of the ocean, that dumping our trash and other toxins into the sea would have no major consequences. As we have seen, that is entirely inaccurate. Oil spills, floating trash, toxic spills are just some of the various factors that contribute to the pollution of the oceans (Heimbuch, 2009).

“Waste” is a short essay in which Wendell Berry critically analyzes the growing epidemic of trash that is polluting the nation’s land, waterways, and the air. Berry explains to the readers how the remnants of floods and litter that leave farmlands scattered with trash, makes more work for the farmers who have to rid their land of the trash before they can use it. Along with the floods, roads and highways also lead to a barrage of garbage from people who are too lazy or ignorant to take proper care of their garbage, which Berry claims leads to “. . . a constant precipitation of cans, bottles, the plastic-ware containers of fast food joints, soiled plastic diapers, and sometimes whole bags of garbage,” (Waste 1) along the edges of their fields. The garbage of the country continues to be a burden for everyone, whether it impacts them directly or not. Although it would be impossible to eliminate garbage completely from the country, the waste could be greatly reduced. Most of today’s trash is a consequence of the laziness of American society.

According to Donald Finkel, describing his own speculations help the observer understand his interpretation of the artwork. In light of this, he shares the correlation between the different parts of nature and color in the first stanza by drawing attention to how “the sea is blue”(1). By starting his poem with this reason, repeated twice with other elements of the painting, it conjures the imagery of a chain reaction within creation. The land, sea, and people are linked as one- a commentary on the inclusiveness of nature. In addition to the color blue, a connection is created with the use of similes between the color of the men’s “white faces”, which was “like the snow on Fuji...and the crest of the wave” (3). It is not by mere coincidence that the three main objects in Hokusai’s work are alike in color. Once again, land, sea, and humanity are linked in a triangle, providing balance. Finally, a yellow neutral tone envelops the people, “an earthcolored sky” that is also “the color of their boats”(8, 4-5). Finkel, and the woodblock, are saying that nature is not the tool of humans, but rather that humans are just one part of a larger world that, as the wave shows, can just as easily overwhelm

Every day, many people around the world dump trash into rivers or off of boats. To them it’s “out of sight, out of mind”, but it’s not that easy for inhabitants of the ocean. As the garbage flows from rivers into the oceans, it eventually combines with the garbage already floating in the ocean and results in garbage patches, which all

In the article “Oceans of Pollution,” published by Al Jazeera, Dahr Jamail discussed the impacts of pollution on the world’s oceans. He talked about the amount of plastic wastes produced by human and the increasing area of “dead zones.” He showed how seriously plastic debris and chemical fertilisers have affected the environment and how harmful they are to ecosystem. Jamail tried to warn general publics on the damages they have caused on the environment and hoped to gather people’s attention on pollution by writing this article. Jamail made a strong communication with the audience by using three rhetorical strategies, logos, pathos, and ethos, and his article clearly fulfilled his purpose.

When Dr. Suess wrote The Lorax it was in response to deforestation if he were alive today I think he would make another version of the Lorax however this time it would be about polluting the ocean. Riding in the with my cousin once I watched him throw a can out of the window. I can remember getting mad at him and asking him what he was doing and all he said was, "someone else will pick it up, it's not like it is a big deal." Well at the time I let it go and thought nothing more of it. Time continued on and when I was in sixth grade my mom and I went to Florida as your driving on a dirt road, how about that drive through meal bag that your spouse can’t know about because you and your supposed to be eating healthy? Or watched someone else throw that spit bottle out the window? Believe it or not things like these examples have an impact on the world. We’ve all heard the reduce, reuse, recycle but why are people so adamant about it? Perfect examples of reasons why people do this can be seen in the ocean ecosystems. More and more of our wastes are ending up in the ocean and harming the animals living there. Innocent animals that just want to survive and thrive aren’t getting the opportunity to try because of trash and litter that floats and sinks in the ocean.

Saukko gives numerous examples and statistics on how the United States is polluting the world. Ironically, she mentions several strategic points that will help pollute the world, such as dumps, landfills, rivers, lagoons, lakes, and oceans. In addition, she suggests that polluting the air is essential in this process and the best way to do so is through combustion and evaporation. She sarcastically reminds us that we have to continuously pollute, otherwise, the wind and rain will cleanse the earth. By polluting the air, acid rain will be formed and affect also the animals on the lakes. She also argues ironically that contaminating rivers is a hard task because they act as a cleansing system for the earth and that no matter how hard we try to contaminate them, they will transport all the pollution towards the oceans. She reminds us that Oceans are very hard to contaminate because they have a large volume and a natural tendency to reduce contamination. Therefore, we should use the ocean as a dumpling place.

The Title of this essay is called “What is the Major Problems with Pollutants on the Great Lakes”. The essay explains that there is a problem going on in the Great Lakes with people who live around the Great Lakes area in that what they are throwing into the lakes; whether it would be from trash or fecal matter it is all causing major effects on the ecosystem on the Great Lakes, in turn effecting the fish and water we consume. This is not only a major problem for the lakes but also the humans that depend on those lakes.

In the story, “Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic… Are We?” by Susan Casey, Captain Charles Moore experiences what can be described as a living nightmare. In the Northern Pacific subtropical gyre, known as the Eastern Garbage Patch, Captain Moore sees the piles and piles of used, bottles, nets, ropes, bath toys, jugs, and traps, all creating a layer of “plastic crap” above the ocean’s surface, staying completely still in a windless current less body of water. The experience of seeing what you care about be completely changed because of pollution or simple human neglect. Personally, I have an instance of this in the first house that I remember living in. What was once a house that had a lot of connections from not only me, but others in the

In the article When the Mermaids Cry” The Great Plastic Tide by Claire Le Guern Lytle, she wrote “For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming and upward trend over the past years” This means that more and more trash is added to the 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Almost everything around us is made out of plastic, this is later misused and ending in the wrong place. The Center for Biological Diversity wrote “In the first decade of this century, we made more plastic than all the plastic in history up to the year 2000. And every year, billions of pounds of plastic end up in the world’s oceans. Most ocean pollution starts out on land and is carried by wind and rain to the sea. Once in the water, there is a near-continuous accumulation of waste.” Our plastic is misplaced and it escalates from there. However, plastic pollution hurts us as well. “Trash in the water compromises the health of humans, wildlife and the livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean;” wrote a non-profit group called Ocean Conservation. If our oceans are covered in trash, everyone that relies on the ocean is going to suffer. The effect is not just in our health, it also affects our economy. Ocean Conservation also

In a world full of different people that come from various backgrounds, there are different perspectives on what is found as important. Something that is seen as trash or useless by one may have once meant the world to another person. Each piece of trash carries a memory from its past life, ready to take on its new life to help the next person in one way or another. Howard Nemerov’s poem “The Town Dump”, Lars Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving”, and “The Town Dump” by Wallace Stegner each tell a story about how trash has impacted them. Even though these pieces are written with different messages, each piece of writing uses tone to establish the importance of local trash, as well as establishing the history behind its significance.

Authors use imagery to emphasize the literary manner and show the disturbance it has to the environment. For example, in Kenneth Harts “Keep America Beautiful” the speaker in annoyance states, “Cheeto bag and burger wrappers and monster drink cups on the floor.” The view of trash on the floor is disgusting to look at and that is caused by human activity. People who are lazy throw their trash on the floor instead of going to throw it in the trash. In addition, in “Garbage Truck” the author states, “You coughed at my exhaust.” The garbage truck that produces a lot of smoke coming out of the exhaust causes people to cough. The smoke is also released to the atmosphere and that is led to global warming. Physical pollution is one of the most disturbing

Do you ever wonder what happens when you dispose of a common item such as a water bottle, a cigarette or even a Barbie doll? Most people would assume that it will go straight to the trash and be destroyed for good. Not many are aware of the number of materials they are wasting every day and how most of these items do not end up in landfills but in our environment. Chris Jordan, a contemporary modern artist, surely brings us to the attention of how our world is drowning from our piles of garbage through his unique way of art - which is putting the world we live in into numbers. Most of his work is revolved around the statistical aspect of garbage that is collectively growing around the world, but he does this in an eye-opening manner. Jordan

Casey starts with the fascinating theory from the reference of story about Captain Charles Moore who turned from his route and adopts a new route when he was returning to Southern California from a sailing race. In that new route which Moore called as North Pacific subtropical gyre; he and his crew saw lot of plastic things in that area due to which activity of marine life in that area was completely abolished. By starting her article with this story of Moore, Casey stresses the importance of issue of plastic as pollutants in our oceans and readies his readers for a proposition related illuminate the issue of plastic pollution in oceans. A rhetorical analysis uncovers the fluctuating degrees of progress with which Casey utilizes logos, pathos, and ethos: while Casey's ethos is solid due to the notoriety she conveys to her writing and her utilization of pathos to speak to her intended interest group of individuals living close to oceans or beach front zones; his utilization of logos is powerless. It can be said that this article could have been more effective and stronger if Casey would have write clear words about the solution of the problems of plastic in oceans. She just has discussed it with acceptable facts but there is no clear recommendations at all levels. Casey is gifted in argumentation and her solid ethos is effective to compensate for with string support for her thesis that we have to take care of the issue of plastic that our oceans

In the documentary “Inside the Garbage of the World”, the main social problem being explained is that there has been a great influx of plastic and other type of garbage in oceans and their beaches. This buildup of pollution has largely affected the wildlife population ranging from animals on the beaches to the creatures of the ocean. In oceans, what is called ‘garbage patches’, a large buildup of garbage that flow to one area in the oceans, are being created. Approximately 50 percent of all plastic sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor but about 2 times that much is actually already on the ocean floor. In fact, according to the documentary, there is a garbage patch that is to the left of California that is the size of half of the United States. Each year, about 4.7 million tons of plastic goes in the ocean a year and it is estimated that by 2050, there will be another 33 billion tons of plastic added to the present amount. Eighty percent of the current pollution comes from the land. According to marine researchers, twice as much plastic debris is one the ocean floor than it was 10 years ago. In the futures, plastic will break down into smaller pieces of plastic, creating a bigger problem from the habitat. This plastic pollution is one of the leading cause for beach and ocean inhabiting creatures be extinct because animals are mistaking these plastic pieces for food. When scientist began to dissect beach animals such as birds, they discovered that at least fifteen pounds of