As part of your work looking into marine pollution and its consequences, SHB GEO would like you to watch the video which is linked below. The video is of a lecture given by a world renowned oceanographer, by the name of Sylvia Earle. Your homework is quite simple – to watch the video and prepare 3 questions that you might want to ask Dr Earle at the end of her talk. We’d like you to ask your questions through the blog by adding a comment below (In the box where it says LEAVE A REPLY HERE). This is an open blog, so you don’t need a code to comment, but you do need to put in your email address (but don’t worry, this will not be displayed).
There are merits available for the first question to be posted AND for the best questions we read.
Questions…
1) In Japan, the amount of tuna being captured is gradually decreasing. However, since other countries are increasing to poach and export it to Japan, Tuna importers called on them to voluntarily refrain.
We, Japanese people love eating fish. We can’t imagine life without eating them. On the other hand, we also know that we have to save the ocean.
Is there a way we can coexist with fish? Or are we supposed to stop eating fish?
2) In Japan, there is not only fish farming but also fish cultivating technique (where people breed fish eggs and release them into the sea when they are able to protect themselves from predators.) They are aiming at switch from “fishery to catch” to “fishery to breed”
Are there any problems with these kinds of approaches?
3) In Japan, there is a big problem caused the growth of a large amount of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish, due to global warming.
We know that we must not change ecosystem, but what are we supposed to do in a case like this?
Questions:
1. If we got enough technology to build a submarine that can reach the bottom of the ocean, are you going to keep what you discovered a secret to yourself and you organizations, or are you going to tell the public everything?
2. There are many places of the environment are being protected but, how well are they protected?
3. If your trying to stop the destruction of the sea, how effective and fast the process is?
My 3 Questions:
1. Have you ever saw a Great White shark while diving?
2. What is the best part of being a scientist?
3.Why did you choose to be a scientist?
3 questions for geography:
1. What kind of technology is created to help us understand about the nature and how does it work?
2. Who are the two people who went to the Mariana Trench and how come only two?
3. When the United States began to establish a system of parks in Yellowstone National Park, why do the people say it’s the best idea America ever said?
1. Have you ever polluted in the sea?
2. How old were you when you first realized you could make a difference?
3. What is the worst case of sea pollution that you have ever seen?
Mizuki – Well done for being the first student to ask your questions – merits coming your way. I am also very impressed with the questions you have asked; they show a deep understanding of the balance between cultural sensitivity and the need to protect the environment.
Good questions James – I like the 3rdnone about how long it would take to reverse the damage already done .
Good questions Wille
Very good questions Sueng Yeon
Good questions Robbie – I like the one about realising that you can make a difference.
1) What could we do to help the sea?
2) What is the biggest problem about the sea we would face in the future?
3) Is it a good idea to see coral reefs under the sea, because sometimes people might destroy it.
1. If you had a chance to go back through time what will you make sure what people do about the sea?
2. In the future do you believe that people WILL be able to change and stop damaging the sea?
3. How did you feel when you found out that sharks have been having their fins cut off for shark fin soup, turtles are eating plastic bags, corals are dieing etc.?
1) when did you started thinking about changing and making a difference and when did you start doing it?
2)How would you tell or convince people to do what you’re doing and changing them to doing something that is suitable for the environment?
3)If you could do something about the environment what would you do and how would you do it?
1.At what age did you start making a difference to the ocean?
2.How do we focus on saving the ocean if there are lots of other Major problems happening?
3.As a scientist, why did you get interested in the ocean?
1. As you said, only two people have ever gone into the Mariana Trench. Who are those two people?
2. I heard that you said that coral can get bleached. How does it get bleached?
3. What small act that children at school can do to make a good change in the marine ecosystem?
1. How could you make the difference?
2. Why did you want to save an endangered animal and sea from being gone from the earth?
3. If we got enough technology to build something that can help the ocean from being polluted, Will you continue to save the ocean?
1. If we have enough of supplies for the things we need to go under water and see what is going on, why don’t we reduce extra expenses on that and start explaining people about the water pollution and marine life getting in danger. Therefore, people may know what’s going on exactly and can start making difference.
2. Do you have any plans to take it forward to united nations and persuade leaders to support?
3. I have seen pipes and ships in the middle of the oceans where untreated sewage is released. Each governments can take necessary steps by spending a portion their revenue to control the pollution. why can’t they do that?
🙂 I pledge myself to start minimizing the pollution. And I request others to give their support. 🙂
1) Some people love fish and for some it is the only thing they eat for protein. Maybe we can try to get people to slow down to let the populations increase. Is there any other way in which we can live with fishes and still be able to eat them?
2) Where can our waste go instead of pouring it into the ocean and poisoning fishes?
3) If everyone does decide to stop the excessive fishing, about how long will it take for the ocean to fully recover? Will it ever fully recover?
What do you think is the most important thing about the ocean that needs saving?
What do you think is the best and quickest way to protect and save the ocean?
If the ocean continues getting more polluted and littered in the future, will you still help protect it or just give up?
1.What can we do to protect the sea and what have you done?
2.If the ocean exploration is promoted, don’t you think that it would be quite risky that some explorer can accidentally harm the environment ? (Sensitive coral reef?)
3.The US has protected 340,000 square miles of the ocean. Will there be any possibility that some organization can present the issue to other countries and ask for these changes too due to the importance of the ocean?
QUESTIONZZZZZ!!!! (I hade loads but I tried my best to decrease it into three ;))
1. So, you’re telling us, that to help save the ocean? “Okay, maybe I’ll help.” I bet most of the people have thought that phrase in their mind as they watched through your speech in TED. But the problem here, is how? What and how are we able to change? At the last part of your speech, you said, “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.” But does that REALLY going to change the world? I mean, do you think 7 billion people would easily change their mind, and stop going fishing, and start protecting the sea? If we start protecting, of course there will be positive effects, but also negative effects. People can lose their job (like when they stop going fishing, or maybe stop getting oil from the sea which helps oil spills), the economy goes worse, and in the end, people don’t even have time to look at the sea than looking at their own life. So, is there another way to help, and how?
2. When you were a little girl, like us right now, have you ever wondered where your food (maybe fish and chips!) came from, and how they were killed and how much of them was used as waste? If your answer was yes (I bet it was), and if you could see through the problem in the future, what was your first thing that came up on your mind what to do if in the next 20 or maybe 30 years, when a disaster came up?
3. If you were to choose among these three choices, what would you choose?
– Help sea creatures from losing habitats?
– Help clean the polluted sea water?
– Help telling people to reduce the amount of fishing?
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1) If we don’t stop polluting the sea, what will happen to it in the next ten years?
2) what could we do other than stop throwing litter into the sea to stop killing marine life?
3) If the tourists that go scuba diving are damaging the corals, do you think that scuba diving should be banned?
1) why does the marine life affect the human life so much?
2) as you said the marine life or the animals in the sea are dying, so what are the choices or things that we could do to help these small animals to stay alive, or their habitats under the sea (the corals)?
3) why did you decided to become a oceanography? Was it because when you went diving? Or was it what you wanted as a child?
1)How do we reduce the damage that we have done to the marine life and how long will the process be?
2)What makes you think you need to help the endanger animal in the ocean?
3)If we have a high technology stuff that could help the marine life would you still continue helping the marine life?
Question for Sylvia Earle:
1. As said, the United States had established the National Marine Sanctuaries, a great idea. I agree, too, that this is a great idea. Is it possible that each country could set up National Marine Sanctuaries, just like the United States? That maybe a small help from everybody, a fair amount from each seaside country, would round up to be a great amount of the ocean saved? Is it possible for this idea to work, and to convince the governments of international countries to agree on this mission to save the blue heart of the Earth?
2. To various people, a huge number, their source of protein depends on fish. But the fishing industry is destroying marine lives tragically. I can see two sides of the argument: the need of fish and how we are taking too much marine lives out of the ocean. If we could find a balanced number of marine lives we take out, so that we wouldn’t affect the number any longer, is that possible? In this case, so that the whole system could grow back, what would the number have to be in order to save the ocean before we face the case of “Tomorrow’s Child”?
3. Just out of curiosity, what are you going to do after this talk? If this speech fails to do as you hoped, no commercial and no public support, would you continue to fulfill this dream? And if so, what would you actually do to help and what you believe would be most effective if you had to continue alone?
1) what would happen in 10 years if we’re still continuing to pollute and destroying the ocean?
2) what affects the human life compared to the marine life?
3)what ways can we do to protect the ocean?
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1) I think most people does agree on what you said that if we don’t start to safe the ocean, there would be problems to our environments and lives later but, for some places around the world that relies their life on ocean, especially food, if ALL fishermen stop fishing, we will cause lots of problems there. Also, if we REDUCE fishing, loads of people who are fishermen or doing jobs with the sea would lost their jobs, don’t they? Also, most of the human’s daily life sometimes does pollution to the sea, like taking the oil from beneath the sea, but if we stop doing those things, our life would be much much more harder and eventually, worst because we both needed time to spend in our life that are much more harder, AND to protect the sea? Maybe there could be anymore ideas for helping?
2)You said if we continue to destroy the ocean, the habitat of the sea creatures, or even the ocean floor species like coral reef, you are destroying yourselves and drying out your own planet, like mars, there would be no life living because if there are no blue, there are no green isn’t it? But, I don’t understand why, even if ALL sea creatures are dead and there are not even a single specie living in the ocean, how would it make ALL the water dry out? It’s not like if sea creatures are dead and the water would suddenly just started to dry out because even without the sea creatures, the water cycle (evaporation…) would still be working doesn’t it?
3) You also told us about by-catch that all sorts of fish we eat, about 10 pounds or even 100 pounds were being thrown away. But why? Example, if markets only neede shrimps but they accidentally caught fishes or crabs, why don’t they keep them instead of throwing away?
1) What would happen if we kill all the sharks in the sea? How would that affect the sea food chain and therefore our lives?
2) How much time do we actually have left until it is too late to save the ocean?
3) If we do manage to stop the destruction of the sea, will the sea be able to heal itself back to how it was originally?
1. What can we do to make the ocean better or help the ocean?
2. Fish has very many healthy things in them. Then do you mean we shouldn’t eat fish any more?
3. The ocean is in great danger and fishes are diappearing what effect will it give us in the future?
A very interesting (and scary!) speech. It has completely raised my awareness of the dangers the ocean faces. I knew a bit about the danger the ocean is in but your TEDtalk has just completely changed my approach to saving the ocean; I want to get involved – now.
I thought the speech was great but I was wondering what things ordinary people could do to save the ocean? Not eating seafood being an obvious one but were there any specific things besides refraining from consuming seafood?
That brings me on to my second question;I understand that to provide marine life (especially fish) with enough time to replenish it would probably be best to stop eating seafood completely. However would you say that it would be possible to continue to consume fish but in smaller quantities so that fish numbers rise, or would we have to completely stop eating fish to let their numbers rise?
On a similar topic are there any appropriate ways of fishing that won’t destroy the sea floor or take out billions (Millions, Trillions?) of bycatch fish and crustaceans? So basically are there any good ways of fishing that aren’t too bad for the environment?
1)What did you found out about diving at day and night in the sea? What are the differences between diving day and night?
2)In the next 100 years will there be any restructure of continents?
3)What role did coral reefs play in making the ocean into its present state?
Questions
1) As you know, everyone work or have fun using the ocean in good and bad ways. But if you really want us to save the ocean, do you think we can? People from all over the world will must need the ocean for fishing and oil spills for work and also having fun, such as driving and sailing. So i just wanna know that, how willl you encourage us (people) to help save our world.
2) So if you want us to stop littering things to the ocean, so where will we littered our rubbish and unuseful things? Will you be able to help us? Will this help to protect the fishes from poisoning?
3) What was the worst thing that had happen to the ocean? When you realise that, what was your feeling that time? So, is this why it inspires you to save our ocean?
Will this talk stop people eating shark fin? or the people just ignored and keep eating it more and more
Will the beautiful oceans that full of colorful coral reef and animal came back again?
Will the oceans became blue and clean again?
1. The technology exists to build full ocean access submersibles. Two have been to the deepest point – the Trieste in 1960 and earlier this year, Jim Cameron’s Deep Challenger. Deepsearch is under development awaiting phase II funding. With Deepsearch, the idea is to share information learned because all life on earth is reliant upon the sea.
2. Marine protected areas are not very well protected at all. Some areas have good anti poaching programs but what of protection from pollution, marine debris and other human impacts? More needs to be done by way of enforcement and pollution prevention.
3. Every person has the power to help protect the ocean through their personal choices. Examples – use less plastic, eat only local, sustainable sea life if eating sea life at all, reduce use of chemicals, help with a beach clean up, don’t release pet fish into the ocean, help replant/restore a marsh or wetland. There are many more ways and the more people that participate, the faster results will be seen.
1. The best technologies for understanding the ocean are submersibles and habitats like Aquarius in the USA. These give scientists the luxury of time in the deep sea. Imagine trying to study lions or birds only by using cameras or nets. There are other kinds of underwater systems that can help too. AUVs for mapping jobs, ROVs for real time video and sampling, landers and observing systems for long term study, and many kinds of sampling instruments that can be used on a variety of underwater vehicles.
2. There are actually 3 people who have been to the Mariana Trench (and back). Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in 1960 and Jim Cameron in 2012.
3. “The best idea” statement has to do with the wisdom of setting aside large, intact ecosystems. One of the worst things that has happened is dense coastal development, destroying natural reefs, shoals, mangroves and other natural protection leaving people vulnerable to storms
1. What is the most endangered fish?
2. What makes corals dead?
3. What is the worst thing happens to the sea?
1.) What other ways can we catch fish without destroying the environment?
2.) What do you feel when you first see fish and corals dying?
3.) What will happen in the next 100 years if we don’t catch any fish, will there be too much fish in the ocean ? If we catch 2 times as much fish as we do now will the ocean be empty?
Hi, I am not in Year 8, but I am a scuba instructor living and working in the ocean. I stumbled across this article, and am so impressed by the thoughtful questions that these commenters have posted!
Amazing job guys.