Week 4
In week 4 we dived in our group research which was climate change. Since climate change is such a huge and broad topic we decided since last week to focus more on water pollution. The reason behind this is that everything on our planet needs water to survive and since many of our rivers and some parts of our oceans were contaminated we decided to focus more on water pollution.
We explored how water pollution was affecting our planet, how many living things were affected by this and how it started in the first place. Since our main goal wasn't the entire world but it was in NZ so we decided to focus more on what's happening in NZ and how water pollution was affecting the country by viewing different reliable sites. Even though I knew water pollution was a horrible tragic situation our country is facing, the results that I found could only be described as shocking. For example, even though you might know this, I never knew that a piece of plastic takes thousands of years to decompress. This got me thinking, if it's this big of a problem with NZ then what about the world? I keep thinking it must be 100 times worse for the rest of the planet and why didn't we try to fix or help reduce this problem earlier. Some sites that I.found the most helpful are.
https://berl.co.nz/our-pro-bono/freshwater-new-zealand-2-new-zealand-world-water
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/polluted-drained-and-drying-out-new-warnings-on-new-zealands-rivers-and-lakes-136486
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/109701626/water-pollution-the-number-one-concern-for-new-zealanders-in-new-poll
Even though for this week there weren't that many people this allowed me and my group members to work more efficiently and find more data. This week's class not only helped me to see how bad our planet actually is, but also it helped me focus more on our group research. Another thing I learned in this week's lecture that I'll always remember is that we must take care of our planet more efficiently. After all, we only have planet earth and we need to take care of it as much as it has taken care of all of us. This week lecturer really opened my eyes to see how we treated our planet.