Reduce Ocean Acidification

The Earth is covered by 70 percent of water (Vaughn, par 6 ). Of that water 97% is composed of salt water, leaving just three percent fresh water that lies in streams, rivers, glaciers, and underground (Rekacewicz, par 1). This vast amount of water has not been yet fully discovered with only five percent being explored ( Vaughn, par 9). For generations the ocean has been called “The largest museum on earth” (Vaughn, par 8). The Earth has been maintained in a natural state of balance, but the advancement of human civilization has thrown it off balance (Stewart, video). Each year as humans evolve we destroy the Earth along with its natural resources (Rekacewicz, par1). Almost everything depends on water and it’s cycle. However, the oceans
What we could do to prevent ocean acidification from continuing and harming the ecosystems even more is to reduce the world's carbon footprint. Some ideas of helping the reduce the carbon footprint is to use less energy at home; using natural gas and electric heating will reduce your home's carbon footprint, conserving water, reduce using plastic consumption, by less consumable thing’s; the manufacturing of the products create more carbon for making them. The blanket of carbon dioxide we've been building for over a hundred years acts like a greenhouse, trapping more of the sun's heat (Karl, 2009). More heat means a warmer ocean, which is taking a toll on the marine life. This also causes the ocean to become more and more acidic which makes it hard for organisms like corals and clams to build their skeletons and shells. Humans are deeply involved with using energy from fossil fuels. Transport, industry and homes all use fossil fuels. It is hard to get the world to undo what it has became, our imprint on the world will; never go away but we can make changes to prevent it from getting any worse, it is a huge job but working together it can be done (Bijma,