Do the right thing: The Oceans
It's hard to imagine a world without the oceans as we know them. Yet we inch closer to that reality each day. Each day that we litter, we fish, we pollute, and we ignore.
As a "normal" human on this planet, it's hard to take a ton of responsibility for a problem the size of the ocean. I alone can't stop the overfishing, or the corporate polluting, or drunk Gary throwing his empties in the lake every Thursday night.
What I can do is help clean up some of that trash just sitting on our ocean and lakefronts, and remind you:
Only 10 percent of large fish (tuna, salmon, swordfish, etc.) remain in our oceans today.
We are on pace to have more plastic than fish in our oceans by the year 2050 (think about that).
97 percent of Planet Earth is ocean, this stuff matters.
Fortunately, we can still make a change. We can restore our oceans, we can clean up the mess, and we can thrive as a planet defined by our oceans.
"We must be a better shepherd of our activities and behaviors," -- Neil Degrasse Tyson