Clean Oceans are Necessary! Just Ask a Sea Turtle


Posted June 12, 2020 by stilsonlewis

We live on the blue planet. It has that color because 71% of the earth is covered by water, and most of that is ocean. These great waters are necessary to our lives.

 
Look at Earth, this planet, our world, from space.  We are a primarily blue planet.  Yes there are slashes of green parting the waters with some swaths of tans for accents, and it is all punctuated with two caps of white. But our world is for the most part, blue, the color of our oceans. The oceans are in fact one continuous body of water. It is the largest ecosystem we have, and generates half the oxygen we breath. They are the reservoir for 97% of our water.
World Sea Turtle Day is the 16th of June.  There are seven species of sea turtles, six of them leave all over the world in both warm and cool waters.  The seventh is the Flatback sea turtle, who lives only in the ocean around Australia.  There are several threats to ocean life.  Indiscriminate fishing is a huge one. Another huge one is plastic.  The common plastic bag that we use for so many things everyday looks like a jellyfish when it is being washed around in the water, and jellyfish is a sea turtle's favourite food.  Then there is the crippling trap presented by those bands of narrow plastic loops, our 6 pack holders. These can cripple the turtles.
Just one example of how human life is affecting our world. We can turn this around.  It has already begun, little by little.  It can seem awfully slow, but that is how we got into this mess to begin with. We just need to realize how necessary our oceans, the sea is to all of us.  "Cut down too many forests,foul too many rivers and seas,mess up the atmosphere and we have had it.",  L. Ron Hubbard.   www.thewaytohappiness.org   @waytohappinesstampa      
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Issued By Martha Stilson
Country United States
Categories Aerospace , Environment , Health
Tags environment , oceans , oxygen , plastic , sea turtle
Last Updated June 12, 2020