Important points
- Eutrophication- The formation of dead zones through process of enrichment of the sea by nutrients, principally compounds containing nitrogen and phosphorus that promote the growth of plants
- the amount of algae grows decreasing the amount of oxygen level by other organisms
- dead zones end the marine life/ecosystem
- because of oxygen depletion dead organisms end up in the shores of Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Seto Inland Sea Gulf of Mexico, and Oregon Coast
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus runoff from farms often lead to these dead zones
- need the help of the government to keep off and stop dead zones, in order to protect and pass the word to the people and protect the region
- it can recover form loss of run offs, it may be some what gradual
- water should be filtered and contain, reserved
Author's Main Idea
In this article "reviving dead zones" by Luarence Mee, the author main idea is the explanation and cause of Eutrophication. Mee explains how Eutrophication is form by runoffs and farm lands. Through this the marine ecosystem start to collapse due to the fact that the oxygen level start to decrease and the marine life begins to die, the plankton and algae begin to feed of the oxygen in the water. Mee uses the Black sea as an example of the occurrence and to give the reader the information of how nutrients give a negative impact to the region. How ever there can be a solution to the problem and one of them are the selfish beds they can help with the bacteria and the dead phytoplankton that has been growing at the bottem of the sea, along with this humans can also help mainly the government base on Mee's opinion believing that the government is one of main help to protect the development of dead zones.
Reflection:
Through this article i have realize that humans are the cause of many ecosystem destruction. We do not notice at any moment when making the action because our focus is in the benefit we receive through this common resources. Humans realize till the harm that we are making to the earth once the damage becomes impossible to fix or it is to late to act upon our destruction to the environment realizing that our resources are limited and are in need to be use wisely for our future generation. Humans need to stop polluting the earth but then i ask myself knowing that it is hypocritically of me to say that because i am as well one of the many people who drives a car daily, we can not stop some thing that we are use t do daily we are humans and we need these thing in our life, however by educating our self we can learn to decrease the amount of water waste, pollution and overuse of resources in order to stop dead zones from occurring.