Write an essay It's not too late to save our oceans true or false
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The ocean has shaped my life, from my beginnings in the outer islands of Fiji to my appointment last year as the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for the ocean.
Like millions of others before me who have taken sustenance and succour from Neptune’s world, I know there is so much for which we should give thanks. And yet, over the intervening decades of my life, a quickening cycle of decline has been imposed on the ocean’s health by the ever-accumulating effects of harmful human activities. Thanks to growing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, marine life must now battle with increasing levels of acidification, warming and oxygen depletion. Once-pristine waters are fouled by inexorable flows of plastic pollution and damaging effluent from industry, agriculture and sewage.
Meanwhile human greed, as opposed to human need, is depleting the planet’s fish stocks and marine resources at an unsustainable rate. There is a strong causal link between global warming, thermal stress on coral reefs, massive loss of marine biodiversity and the wellbeing of coastal communities. Add rising sea levels and the increasing frequency and ferocity of extreme weather events, and – for an islander like me – it’s easy to imagine that you are drowning.
Does this matter to you, if you live in the urban citadels of post-industrial societies? Contemplate the fact that every second breath you take comes from the ocean’s oxygen, produced by phytoplankton and other marine plant life, and the answer should be abundantly clear. The ocean is this planet’s source of life.
Yet, despite this gyre of decline, I remain a steadfast optimist. I am confident that, by 2030, we will have reversed the negative cycle, and that we will restore our relationship with the ocean to one of respect and balance. My confidence is based on the fact that we have a comprehensive plan to save the ocean, agreed to by all 193 UN member states in 2015 – the Paris climate agreement and the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). Fidelity to these is the prime responsibility of all us living in the 21st century. I do not doubt the force of that fidelity, for humankind always bends in the direction of survival.
Sustainable Development Goal 14 sets out to conserve and sustainably use the ocean’s resources. Its 10 targets are in harmony with the other 16 SDGs in working to bring an end to poverty, hunger and the environmental degradation of our planet. An Ocean Conference was held in June 2017 at the UN headquarters in New York in support of implementing SDG 14, and it proved to be the game-changer required to raise global consciousness around the urgent need for remedial action. Over the last year, ocean action has escalated around the world.