Eric Stearns

Mrs. Mckoy

English 2

02 September 2013

We are the problem

            Who is the Victim and who is the problem? This question is commonly asked by scientists every single day. Are we the problem? Is asked by people every day. Could we help this if we all stop over fishing and polluting the water?  All throughout my life I have swam and played in the ocean my whole life. As I have played throughout the ocean in my small years, I have noticed that the water has started to become more and more disgusting as the year’s progressed. We are the problem and we need to fix it. Why should the coral reef restoration committee help restore the coral reefs? The answer to this is simple; yes they need to help because reefs around the world are being killed off to extinction. We need to help.

            Why should the Coral Reef Restoration Committee help protect the reefs? The Coral Reef Restoration Committee needs to help us out with our coral reef destruction problem because there are beautiful and needed coral reefs all a crossed the world. To save a Reef states “the amount of coral reef break down have three folded in the last years since 1997”(Halaby 2). This is very important to know because if we don’t we have no way to know what to save or what to do about it. We all just need to stop for a moment and think what will happen if we don’t stop polluting or over fishing in our waters. Some of the consequences that will unfold are that fish will not be caught; no fish means that the sharks will try and find some other kind of life source to feed on closer to shore. We need to help.

            One of the things I don’t like most about this destruction of the coral reefs is that some people don’t even know or care. In life and death of coral reefs states “this occurrence of the coral reefs dying will be just like the grey wolf incident, the grey wolves went extinct and then the elk population in the mountains started to multiply rapidly because there was no one to hunt and kill them, after the elk population got bigger more red wood trees started to die because elk like to rub there antlers against the trees so they contracted a disease and the trees started to die, and this just goes on and on.” This is very important to all the people who think coral reefs are not important because this is going to happen to us! Also in Life and Deaths on Coral Reefs they state, “if we do not help the coral reefs then the fish will start to die and the country’s that rely on fish to support their economy will go poor and not have as much money anymore.”(Smith 5) This is very important to us because we do rely some on our fishing in the United States so we need to help, or we will end up losing even more money than we already have.

            I would like to do a lot of further research on the destruction of coral reefs, because I think that people should deserve to know what is happening to their place of life. Also, because I think this could impact our economy and our homes majorly. Not every coral reef in the world is breaking down, but some most reefs are breaking down that we need that we need. A possible argument would be: why do I care, or how does this affect me? Well it does because we need fish for food so our debt will go up if we don’t catch and sell fish to other countries. This is an important topic; just think what if it was you? 

           

Eric Stearns

Mrs. Mckoy

English 2

02 September 2013

Work Cited

Rongo, Tenia. Destruction and conservation of the coral reefs. 02 September 2013. BioScience. www.bioscience.org/coralreefs/destruction

Ted Levin. To save a Reef. 02 September 2013. Coral Reef Restoration Committee, Coral Reef Destruction. www.ebscohost.org/coralreefs /coral