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For our project we decided to do an awareness campaign, but not the traditional way. Instead of doing a traditional campaign by just talking to an audience we decided to take an approach through the news. We started with a simple newspaper article (attached below). We initially just planned for our newspaper article to be published in the falcon courier. But then we thought, lets shoot a little higher, so we emailed the Santa Monica Daily Press to see if our article was good enough to make the local newspaper. Unfortunatley we may have shot a little to high. We haven't heard YET from the Santa Monica Daily Press and are hoping for an email soon. Until then we have substituted with a podcast (attached to the right).
final podcast.mp4Our Podcast.
Our Poster.
Our Newspaper Article.
Deep Sea Mining, An Unknown Threat
Have you ever looked at our earth's vast and beautiful ocean and wondered “What lurks down there”? Beyond the clear blue waters and colorful fish that live near the surface lies a threat, a big threat. At first glance deep sea mining may seem harmless, possibly even beneficial in ways. But it actually poses serious environmental threats. Deep sea mining first began in the 1960s with the same goal it still has today: to find precious metals like nickel and cobalt. But how does deep sea mining obtain these materials? This leads us to the first issue with deep sea mining. For deep sea mining to mine all these materials it has to rip apart the ocean floor as all the precious metals are in the ocean floor. This causes ocean ecosystems to be severely disrupted as the mining machines are destroying the animals' home. Sadly, there is another issue on top of this that these machines cause. The sound and the light pollution. This noise and light is especially harmful to deep sea species as they are used to an almost silent and pitch black environment. Research done by the world resources institute states “Mining activities could impair the feeding and reproduction of deep-sea species through the creation of intense noise and light pollution in a naturally dark and silent environment.“ The fact of the matter is that deep sea mining is harming our ocean species by mining the ocean floor, noise pollution, light pollution and so much more. Now, as we approach the end of this article one question remains. Will we ever be able to balance our dying desire for resources with the health of one of the last untouched wonders of our world? The answer depends on the decisions we make today.
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