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Sylvia A. Earle's The World Is Blue

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The book The World is Blue by Sylvia A. Earle discusses how important marine life is for a steady Earth and what humans are doing wrong that is having a great impact on the oceans and life beneath the waters. Sylvia discusses all this extremely educational and beneficial information to the reader by her past experiences and her feelings towards them. She makes her opinions apparent, but in a way that is professional and allows the reader to see both sides to the problem. The way the book is written is by letting the reader really understand why the world needs the ocean and what impact the ocean has on humans everyday life. Also, she writes with facts and bullet points to show how her information is correct and she is not just over being over …show more content…

The amount of trash that floats in the water is disgusting and gigantic. The big pile of garbage that floats in the ocean is so expansive it still can be viewed 1,000 feet underwater. That image is really disturbing to the reader and it should be. Earle also brings up the fact that the poor animals have no clue or idea what the things are floating around which is likely that they taste it or get stuck in it which ultimately kills them due to suffocation and the garbage getting stuck in their digestive systems. If the trash pile in the middle of the ocean keeps expanding then soon enough it will become a regular task to pull out trash from the fish you're about to cooks stomach. Also, other than trash at the bottom of the ocean there are a ton of shipwrecks that went without being cleaned up. Us humans just need to stop getting lazy because how hard is it to through away your trash in the nearby garbage can then leaving it on or by the beach where it can float into the water and harm a poor, innocent creatures life. Humans really need to learn that laziness today can cause serious problems in the future that may not be able to be

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