Worksheet for online SALUT Oceans, Climate Change, _ Sustainability - option 2
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On line SALUT Oceans, Climate Change, & Sustainability – option 2
Part I:
Summarize (in the form of dot point notes) the key points you learned from this week’s course material.
How the ocean will play a role in homes around coastal cities of the United States.
The ocean contributes more than just another food source for humans, but it acts as a filter for our air.
Climate change will affect our oceans and how we’re able to regulate carbon in our atmosphere. Part II: Using the week’s course materials, SALUT slides, embedded videos and group and article as a guide, answer the following questions.
Will this impact where you live? Yes
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Justification: Yes, the ocean changing due to climate change will absolutely impact where I live. Most of Hawaii will become underwater and most residents will have to move. This may also impact where we will move to as we wouldn’t want to live somewhere that will eventually become consumed by the rising ocean. No ם
Justification: Are you willing (via higher insurance rates, taxes…etc) to help reimburse coastal homeowners and businesses for loss of property values/relocation?
Yes ם
Justification: No ם
Justification: I think I am standing somewhere in the middle. A part of me believes that they had a choice
to invest into a property or business in an area that had a high likelihood of becoming submerged underwater. As we learned in the last chapter, the effects of climate change will give us warning signs to indicate that we’re heading towards devastating disasters. If these individuals decided to ignore these warning signs, then those who didn’t shouldn’t have to pay. However, another part of me thinks that, yes, we should all pay higher premiums and taxes
as we all contributed to the deterioration of our natural systems. If we had not ignored the warning signs, then we may have never been in this situation to begin with. Are you willing to vote for Federal candidates (Senate, House, President) who agree to use Federal tax dollars to reimburse coastal homeowners and businesses for loss of property values/relocation?
Yes ם
Justification: No ם
Justification: I think again I stand in the middle where I’m able to agree with both sides of this example. I
would rather vote for people who want to solve, not prolong, and slap band aids on the greater issue we have which is climate change. While I think that we should have these programs in place for individuals who were unable to relocate prior to costal devastation, we should also have programs to tackle to true issue at hand. Part III: Describe, in your terms, the interconnectivity of human and of the AMOC, climate change, and your life during this century. While researching more on this topic, the first article to come up was Atlantic Ocean Circulation nearing Devastating tipping point, study finds. This is extremely alarming to me given the fact that
the ocean provides a great deal of life support to allow life on Earth. The interconnectivity of humans and AMOC is similar to our ecological systems, going hand in hand. With humans being the top species on Earth, what we do will directly impact our AMOC. Melting ice caps from our overproduction of CO2 leading to trapping excessive greenhouse gases, in turn, affects our ocean and it’s circulation across a global scale. Salinity is also an important issue. As we learned, the ice caps that are melting isn’t ocean water. It’s fresh water with no equal salt content to ocean water. As more of this frozen water melts, it will cause an imbalance within our ocean salinity. With this off balance, vital ocean life will be unable to adapt to the change. Our food sources will dwindle and creatures that work on breaking down CO2 from our atmosphere will die off. During this century I think we’ll begin to see the onset of all of these issues and begin to see a decline in positive data. Part IV: Read the attached article: Commercial Arctic shipping through the Northeast Passage: routes, resources, governance, technology, and infrastructure
. Referencing this article, discuss your view in a few paragraphs on the pros and cons of mining of resources in the Artic versus the cost of sea level rise on coastal communities.
To me, one of the first pros is the new discovery of natural resources and ability to move ships through
passages. The article states the many economic lures countries would have in using the Artic as a route
for transportation. However, the cons would be the direct impact of frequent large ships passing
through ice caps, further breaking them up and melting into the ocean. Another con I see is political power becoming a factor. As the Artic passage is seen as a superior shipping route, cutting down almost 24% of time it would’ve taken, a neighboring country will want to claim that part of ocean as their own to impose taxes or power. With natural resources being a driving factor of developing and creating infrastructure in the artic, I would be concerned about the impacts it will have on the surrounding environment. It would not seem like a good step in the right direction. This will lead to even more overconsumption and the need to extract more natural materials from this area. Later leading to pollution and damage to the surrounding ecosystems that were once untouched.
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