Pollution Paper

Pollution

By: Bizzie Bowers

Did you know that the bottled water you drink is bad for you and that littering is bad for the environment and the animals? I know this because after reading “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox. I realized that the bottled water my family drinks is bad for my family and I. I also found out that the pollution we leave in the lake or ocean in bad for all the marine animals”. In this essay I will describe how the authors point of view on littering and pollution compare and contrast.

In the two articles “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox the authors point of view on how pollution affects the earth and how littering affects the earth are similar in many ways. In both articles the authors both adequately describe how pollution and littering is bad for our earth. In the article “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson Angela Pozzi states that “Plastic doesn’t break down and become absorbed by the environment. Instead, sunlight breaks it down into pieces about the size of plankton, which are tiny organisms that float in the sea”.” These tiny pieces of plastic enter the food chain”. “Sea animals eat them and end up dying”. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox. Catherine states that “ All those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil”. She also states that “Up to a quarter of oil is in your bottled water”. In “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson Pozzi states that “With the children’s help from bringing the litter they find to Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education she can save the marine animals”. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox she states that “By drinking more tap water from the faucet we can cut down on the amount of pollution we produce. These are the reasons the authors point of view on how pollution and littering is similar in many ways.

In the articles “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox the authors point of view on how pollution and littering is also very different. In “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson states that when “Angela Pozzi finds trash on the beach she does not throw it away she uses it to make sculptures of marine animals”. “Pozzi does this to raise awareness about the affect littering has on marine animals”. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox states that “Catherine is against drinking water from the bottle and that we should drink straight from the faucet”. The authors also have a different way they want to fix things. In “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson the text states that Pozzi says “ She has started an awareness program called Washed Ashore where when people find trash on the beach or lake they take it to Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education to give it to Pozzi to make sculptures with”. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox. The text states that “Catherine explains why she does not think water bottles are not good for the environment and how they are bad for humans”. This is why the authors point of view on pollution and littering are very different.

In conclusion, after reading the two articles “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox. I now know that tap water is better for you and that the trash we leave at the beach or ocean not just affects the environment it affects the animals too. So when you drink a bottle of water think to yourself do I really want to drink a quart of chemicals with my water. If you don’t than fill a cup with some tap water instead. Also if you are at the beach and have an empty container of water don’t throw it in the ocean,wait for a trashcan because the trash you throw in the ocean can hurt an animal in numerous ways or you could kill it.