Our final project for this semester is about researching a global crisis and create a film as a reflection.
We need to choose one topic from this website:
https://foresight.arup.com/our-tools/drivers-of-change/
In the end, I chose the theme of protecting the ocean.
Collection:
What does the ocean provide us?
POWERFUL VIDEO: Why We Need to Stop Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans FOR GOOD
Ocean plastic pollution：
Plastic is accumulating in the world’s oceans at a staggering rate. An estimated eight million tons of plastic – the equivalent of over 26,600 Boeing 747 planes – are swept into our seas and oceans every single year, mainly via rivers and coastal urban centres, through, for example, uncaptured waste, sewage systems, road run-off and littering.
This pollution problem is so ubiquitous that plastic can be found throughout the marine environment – from coastlines and nearshore lagoons to remote ocean hotspots where plastics, caught up in ocean currents, are gathered up into huge ‘garbage patches’ that swirl on the ocean surface and many metres below. Plastics are even found in polar ice.
Only twenty percent of the plastic pollution in our seas and oceans comes directly from illegal dumping at sea or commercial fishing activity. The majority enters the oceans from land-based sources of plastic debris and even from our very own homes.
These plastics pose a huge danger to sea life, with over 500 marine species known to suffer from entanglement in and consumption of plastic debris, both of which often prove fatal.
To make matters worse, the durable nature of plastic means that this material does not biodegrade in the ocean. It simply breaks up into smaller and smaller pieces, lingering in the marine environment for centuries.
The ocean belongs to all human beings in the world, not a few specific countries. Protecting the ocean is the common responsibility of all human beings. This is one of the reasons why I chose this theme. In recent years, because of my studies, I have lived in Busan, Xiamen, Sanya and Qingdao in South Korea. I have discovered that our oceans are no longer as blue and beautiful as before. I hope that through this project, more people will discover that the marine environment is facing huge challenges, and that more people will pay attention to this problem.
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