Authors
Anil Kumar Nair
Abstract
The presumption that money can compensate everything is wrong because of the ever increasing pollution in the sea which destroys the marine life and also disturbing the whole ecological balance. Oceans are the main source for dumping many types of waste in present eras such as plastic, oil waste, waste water etc. For many years, these dumping of the trashes is now leading to the death of variety of aquatic flora and fauna and also causing the extinction of many species of fishes. Due to the direct consequences of pollution, millions of animals, including birds and fishes which are completely dependent on the water are being killed. Many other types of oceanic pollution such as radioactive and industrial waste, pollution due to festivals, oil spills are just as costly and can contaminate the oceans for thousands of years to come. This paper gives a brief discussion about the marine pollution and also its impact on human and the aquatic life. Keywords: Marine Pollution, Festivals, Humans, Oil spills, Dumping
Introduction
Marine pollution us caused by the number of factors caused mainly by the humans such as festivals like Narali Pournima, Ganesh Visarjan, deposition of waste water into the sea without treatment and many other reasons. The marine pollution become a major issue of present era, as being ignored for many years. Prior, people thought that the pollutants will become diluted due to the vastness of the ocean and their impacts will be eliminated but due to these pollutants, the balance of ecosystem became altered. Many variety of ways such as tourism revenue, coastal economic activities and lost resources have to pay the costs of this pollution. The pollution causes very dangerous effects on marine animals and plants which now resulting in the extinction of many species of animals and plants. Ocean is the home for variety of living being and therefore people should be responsible towards the motive to avoid pollution in the sea and to help the marine life to bloom for long. The origin of pollution came from both land (e.g., via wind and rivers) and sea (e.g., through mining, marine dredging, shipping, and dumping). The danger to aquatic life came from many practices, like as overexploitation, harvesting, pollution, dumping of waste, global climate change, land reclamation, degrading, and alien species. The natural events in future may be analyzed by the issue of pollution and for the purpose of simulation models which anticipates the results of pollution on marine population that requires the consideration of all possible reasons of pollution over the entire orbit of the species.
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