Persuasive Essay In English
Nikola Bohnke February 1, 2009 Mrs. Leamanczyk First Hour Persuasive essay � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �4� � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �5�
Standing on Juhu beach, in Mumbai India, is little boy sifting through trash. He is wearing torn beach shorts and a plain t-shirt he probably found on the beach. As he is standing there you can see the beach extending far behind him completely covered in garbage, stretching on for miles. The boy 's face is contorted from the smell of the heaping trash and the air seems slightly off color. This is only one beach in the world that has these issues. ("Day in pictures: 12 July." BBC. 12 July 2008) If we don 't try to solve this issue it will spread all over the world invading our beaches in Florida or California. The pollution …show more content…
"PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH STILL GROWING." Ebsco/ Newport News June 2008 Shipping is one of the huge causes of pollution in the ocean. The huge cargo ships burn inefficient fuel that gives off high amounts of CO2 and particles harmful to the ocean and other living creatures. "The International Maritime Organization said last year that sea transport accounted for only 2.7% of total emissions in 2007." More alarming still is the plague of plastic. The UN Environment Programme reckoned in 2006 that every square kilometer of sea held nearly 18,000 pieces of floating plastic. ("More abused than used." Economist 2009) The fact that the ocean is accumulating more plastic every year is increasingly frightening. In some cases people think that just polluting into the ocean is more convenient for us. Rather than actually bringing a recyclable tote bag to the grocery store, they have plastic and paper bags for your convenience. Or rather then having to lug around a heavy water bottle that you would have to refill every time it goes empty you can just grab a simple little plastic bottle of water, prepackaged for our convenience. Some people might think that using
Standing on Juhu beach, in Mumbai India, is little boy sifting through trash. He is wearing torn beach shorts and a plain t-shirt he probably found on the beach. As he is standing there you can see the beach extending far behind him completely covered in garbage, stretching on for miles. The boy 's face is contorted from the smell of the heaping trash and the air seems slightly off color. This is only one beach in the world that has these issues. ("Day in pictures: 12 July." BBC. 12 July 2008) If we don 't try to solve this issue it will spread all over the world invading our beaches in Florida or California. The pollution …show more content…
"PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH STILL GROWING." Ebsco/ Newport News June 2008 Shipping is one of the huge causes of pollution in the ocean. The huge cargo ships burn inefficient fuel that gives off high amounts of CO2 and particles harmful to the ocean and other living creatures. "The International Maritime Organization said last year that sea transport accounted for only 2.7% of total emissions in 2007." More alarming still is the plague of plastic. The UN Environment Programme reckoned in 2006 that every square kilometer of sea held nearly 18,000 pieces of floating plastic. ("More abused than used." Economist 2009) The fact that the ocean is accumulating more plastic every year is increasingly frightening. In some cases people think that just polluting into the ocean is more convenient for us. Rather than actually bringing a recyclable tote bag to the grocery store, they have plastic and paper bags for your convenience. Or rather then having to lug around a heavy water bottle that you would have to refill every time it goes empty you can just grab a simple little plastic bottle of water, prepackaged for our convenience. Some people might think that using