Trends & Analysis
Are we loving our beaches to death?
Turns out we hurt the places we love.
Many of us relish a day (or a week) at the beach. Warm sand between your toes, the roar of the waves, the call of a seagull and maybe a chilled drink in your hand. What better way to get away, to rejuvenate, to reconnect. We love it! We love it so much that sixty percent of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a coastline.
Just a short jaunt for us (and our waste) to reach paradise. This may surprise
you, but eighty percent of all pollution in the seas and ocean comes from land-based
activities. Human land-based activities. And more challenging still, ninety percent of the ocean’s biodiversity
lives along coastlines. Put another way, ninety percent of all marine life rely on
two percent of the earth’s water. The same 2 percent we flock to every chance we get.
Ten Things you can do to help save the ocean
IT'S A FACT
The Great BarrierReef, measuring
1,243 miles, is the
largest living
structure on Earth.
It can be seen from
the Moon.
