All This Talk About the Problem, Any Solutions?

Now all of this talk with problems we have in the environment today, what are some solutions, are there even any solutions? As I stated in blog post 2, that one little piece of wrapper can cause so much damage, so start by picking up all of your trash when having a snack. You can also take a more international level and address global warming to the UN like Greta Thunberg, she is only 16!

(This is Greta, who is Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize)

I go camping along the ocean side every year and there is this nifty environmental organization, mainly targeted for kids. So I take my little siblings there for the program and I also learned something too. Did you know that sand dollars like to live in clean water? Have you ever wondered why it is hard to find them? This should be an indicator to whether the water is clean. A few years ago Massachusetts cleaned up and enforced beach clean up and prohibited littering of any kind. I heard this and was skeptical because there is always talk of that, but how often is it affective? This past year I actually ended up finding sand dollar after sand dollar and in the end we found a few handfuls of them! I took my siblings back up to the program and asked about the surplus of sand dollars and it was because the water is actually cleaning up, and the organization actually goes through the beaches and cleans them up as their routine, which is awesome!

(Woods Hole Group hosting a beach Sweep in MA)

There are also some schools that advertise beach clean up events, these cleanups also count as community service. For example, my girlfriend goes to Salve Regina in Rhode Island, and there is an organization called, Clean Ocean Access. This organization hosts a beach side clean up about every weekend.

You can also start or join a local club, for example, my school has an EAC club,  which is the Environmental Action Club. What this is a club that focuses on providing a safer and cleaner environment for future generations in Hopkinton. They recently had a big fundraiser in order to instal solar panels at our school for cleaner energy.

The biggest thing you can do is clean up litter, even though there is air pollution too, but the ocean's water can provide so much to human life too, not only beauty, but for food, medicines, and so much more. When or if you get around to it, start to do your part, if you don't, just admire what this ocean has to offer before it's not there.