April Current Events

There has recently been trillions of pieces of plastic found in the arctic ocean. This is bad for the already horrible situation about the melting arctic. Since ice is melting in the arctic ocean, it could soon become a major shipping route increasing the plastic pollution to even higher levels! Researchers know that soon the arctic ocean will become more polluted and sadly, they don’t know if there is anything we can do about it. The plastic is mostly between .5 and 12.6 millimeters. 0.5 millimeters is half of the width of a dime! So, it is very hard to take this plastic out of the ocean. There are not that many large pieces of plastic in the arctic ocean. Those plastics break down faster than the very small plastics. This either means people in the arctic have already been polluting the oceans (which is definitely not true). This means the currents have brought the plastic up to the arctic. This is important to us because president Trump does not believe in climate change. This will only make the problem worse so we must try to help make this problem better. Things such as going to the climate march may help to at least try and make the situation better. Earth Day has just passed which should make you more aware of the situation at hand. We all need to help fight this problem otherwise our president will destroy all of the work we have done over the past decade.

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