Our goal is to promote student understanding about and actions to address climate change and ocean acidification, and for students to share their perspectives and solutions with peers across the Pacific Northwest and around the Pacific Rim.
Participating students should post here to meet your colleagues around the Pacific and to share your thoughts and actions about watershed, ocean health and climate change!
Student Discussion >
We love the Earth!
According to SAS, "Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans. There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean. Weighing up to 269,000 tonnes. Plastics consistently make up 60 to 90% of all marine debris studied." This is a big number that need to be considered about. Plastic waste is really dangerous to the the animals that live in or nearby the ocean such as fish, turtles, seabirds, mammals, etc. Moreover, if the humans consume those animals, we will be in danger also. Therefore, we need to work together to solve this problem. But, how? Basically, we can contribute by little works such as recycling the plastic, reducing the amount of using plastic, using reusable bags, never and ever littering, etc. Personally, my family and friends usually go to the beach or the river nearby and pick up garbage when we have time. It's not only help to save the world,we also really enjoy the time together. Doing good work with people you love is great! Now, stop being quiet! We need to act. Our older generation has developed the world. It's time for us to save and protect it for the next generation. The problem seems big but together, we can overcome it.