Initial Reflection

When I initially began taking this class my knowledge of the ocean was little to none. As I grew up, I never really got to learn much about the ocean other than its sea life, modern and ancient. I do however know that the sea is a very important resource as most of our everyday items have some relationship to the ocean, be it either minor or major. Most sea life gives a very important helping hand when it comes to our lives but we also get other resources from the ocean like copper, nickel, cobalt, and gold or even other raw materials such as sand, gravel, and phosphorite. Unfortunately, due to human impact on the ocean, something I have learned more about prior to this class, we are slowly losing these resources that are important in our everyday lives. Habitat destruction, carbon emissions, chemical pollution, oil spills, noise pollution, plastic pollution, and overfishing to name a "few". The list of human interactions with the ocean is a long and horrible one, to be frank. There are good human interactions with the oceans that are happening currently to help in trying to save the ocean, though sadly this is one of those situations where the bad vastly out-weights the good here. It's truly tragic.