Our Plastic Oceans - Ally Pendergrass

In this article, "Our Plastic Oceans," the author straight-forwardly describes the pollution of oceans, without shying away from telling how bad it actually is. The author describes the pollution exactly how it is. The section that really caught my attention was "Are humans at risk?" This was the most interesting to me because we typically only think about how pollution affects the environment and not us. We don't ever think about how it affects the air that we breathe or the water we drink. In this section of the article, the author says "A study last year found that 83 percent of the world's drinking water is contaminated, while this year, researchers found 93 percent of bottled water contains some plastic, often double the amount found in tap water." I found this to be really interesting because almost everyone drinks bottled water and we don't even realize how we're being affected, just by drinking it. This section of the article also says "'I think we'll find all sorts of unintended consequences,' said Ronald Geyer... 'I'd be very surprised to find out that it is a purely aesthetic problem.'" I also found this to be interesting because we are always encouraged to drink more water when in reality, because of pollution, it could negatively affect us in the future. It also tells that seafood can contain plastic. Whenever we eat seafood we don't think about the fish that have been in the water with the plastic and even eating the plastic. We don't think about all the second-hand ways we could be taking in this plastic and the affects that it could have on our bodies.