Harp Seals Persuasive Essay

There are two perspectives on this topic, with it or against it. Harp seals are overcrowding and lowering the population of fish in the Canadian waters, this leads to unemployment in many fish industries. There is an animal chain that has to be balanced, by having too many seals they overpopulate and jump the chain, their meat is a great source of omega 3 and 6, their pelts are water resistant and in many cases do not cause allergies, so the hunting sounds pretty beneficial. It’s the most regulated hunt of its kind & the population is large enough to sustain the hunting. There are 9.5 million harp seals and the hunting of seal pups has reduced the global seal population by two-thirds, but there are many other different ways to fix the problem
Humans over fishing has a bigger impact of the decreased population of fish. More than 6,000 Canadians earn livings from seals’ and fish’s sport and commercial industries. The profits from the commercial industries provide 5% of 6,000 peoples’ income, so why not join this industry and earn easy money by simply hunting seals, doesn’t sound too complicated to them and clearly hasn’t from the outcomes. Some say the process is done quickly and the pain is minimal, while they also say that hunters can’t be sure that the seal is dead before their skins are removed in 66% of cases. Seals are “clubbed” but most are shot, only a small number are killed with a hakpik. The killing takes place outside, where as in a slaughter house they are out of sight, also from their families while being killed and dragged away from them. A saying many people use is “out of sight, out of mind”, although this situation isn’t something that should be thrown aside and forgotten by it not being in sight. Many people think baby seals are the ones being innocently killed, baby seals aren’t legally allowed to be
There are many dangers to this method of extracting natural gas. Water, air, noise, and light pollution are caused from fracking. Methane pollution has a great impact on climate change and most of it is caused by fracking. Fracking causes possible contamination of groundwater, exposure to toxic chemicals, blowout due to gas explosions, waste disposal, large volume of water use in water-deficient regions, etc. Injecting fluids into the earth cause earthquakes. It’s not only harmful to the environment but also to us humans. Workers who work in fracking industries, are very likely to have long term health issues from the chemicals they inhale on a daily basis. There are also a number of benefits of fracking. Increasing reliance on natural gas, rather than coal, results in many public health benefits even though fracking still does harm us in other ways. Natural gas produces only somewhere between 44 and 50 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions compared with the burning of coal. Water intensity is lower for fracking than other fossil fuels. Expensive oil keeps the cost of natural gas appealing because it is cheap and decreases our dependency on foreign fuel sources. Because we are now relying on gas since fracking is so effective and because of its low prices, we are no longer trying to find alternative energy sources. When we were worried about not being