‘Warm’ Species Invading Antarctic

Because of the development of the travel industry, people have recently been seeking new places which they have desired. One would be Antarctica continent, which is regarded as a mysterious continent with gorgeous views. However, many scientists have warned that traveling to Antarctica continent would bring about a lot of environmental problems, because plant seeds and non-native species moved by visitors can wreck Antarctica’s peculiar ecosystems. The survey of A.T.C.M. (Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Edinburg reveals that more than 26,000 tourists visit Antarctica per year and numbers grow by the thousands each year. That is, innumerable species are also going to Antarctica continent, stuck onto visitors and their transportation and they will gradually be able to ruin the Antarctica’s environment. On this, the A.T.C.M. stated that it costs thousands and sometimes millions of dollars to try and get rid of something … prevention is better than a cure. Despite action to prevent non-native species, in the course of time, they have been dramatically increased and have had negative influenced.

Therefore, I contend that international society should be more considerate about protecting Antarctica’s environment from non-native species in the following ways.

Firstly, we should strongly legislate against visiting Antarctica, until we have solved the environmental matters. Antarctica continent should be regarded as a special area; so, nobody should be there, except those with peculiar demands. Of course, we do not have to impinge on what people want, which is to go to Antarctica, and everyone has some opinion of that matter; however, we would need to prohibit entering there to a certain extend for keeping the global environment. Furthermore, it is important that the U.N take an active role in this situation, since many countries are involved in occupying the continent.. In international society, the U.N should pursue collaborative work with international society for legislating against visiting the mysterious continent.

Secondly, advertising is also one of the most effective ways to diminish the increasing of the non-native species. Advertising associated with the situation of Antarctica’s environment should be spread throughout the world through the media of advertisement, such as television, radio, internet, and so on. This is because it would enable all people living in the world to recognize the environmental problem in Antarctica. It might have the same effect as setting a law.

For overcoming significant tasks, finally, strange as it may sound, the fact is that technology should be more developed by the effort of international society. A proverb says, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” Having developed the technology that brought on the environmental ruin these days, we are able to get over it with further technology. Thus, our efforts for developing our technology should be ceaseless, solving our heavy matters in the world.

In conclusion, it is a fact that we face a lot of difficult situations in the global environment; particularly, one of the most considerable areas would be the Antarctica continent. Many non-native species have moved along with people and their transportation and have inhabited it very quickly. Recently, these species have threatened our society. We must try to overcome these difficulties through the collaborative work among the countries. No matter how long it takes, we must complete our problems, handing over all our property to our descendants. So, I think it is high time that we should do this for our future.

Reference :
Rincon, P. (2006, June 23) ‘Warm’ species invading Antarctic. BBC NEWS. Retrieved on May 28,2008, from : http:/www.newsa erts.com/news/article/-warm-species-invading-antarctic.html:scitech19:983775

Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf Eroding at an Unforeseen Place

These days, global warming has been one of the controversial issues in the international society that many environmental experts have warned that it would bring about huge calamities on the earth sooner or later. Because of global warming, the survey originated from many specialists has shown that the Wilkins’s ice shelves located in Antarctica have been eroded more rapidly than they might have thought. For the past 30 years, 20 percent of them have been disappeared under global warming’s effects. It would be able to have a bad effect on surging, calving into icebergs, and raising the sea level. For instance, West Antarctica is one of the most influenced areas, including the peninsula. Some scientists announced that one of the glaciers in West Antarctica has gradually thinned at an average rate of 63 inches a year from 1992 to 1996, although it had thinned at a rate one and half inches a year for the past 4,700 years. On the other hand, some scientists insisted that the global warming should be now regarded as an excessive worrying. In historical terms, they asserted, a crumbling ice shelf had been continuing between the Roman era and the Medieval Warm Period as a temporary phenomenon. Also, they argued that the glacial ice gradually become solid and thickened, which will make it stable longer. However, I think that one cannot emphasize too much the potential danger of the global warming because we are able to perceive a lot of bad situations related to global warming.

Therefore, I am strongly convinced that we should make ceaseless effort to protect the rumbling ice shelves in Antarctica from the global warming, not wanting to have brought on disastrous situations, in the following ways: reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Firstly, reducing is one of the simple ways to save the earth from the global warming. According to development of our society, we are prone to use a lot of products thoughtlessly. If we would consider one more time reducing products in our ordinary life, the environmental situations would be gradually getting better now. An example of what I want to say is that we had better use public transportation instead of our own cars if it is possible; that is, reducing the number of times using cars would be one of the proper methods to prevent the global warming. Thus, we are able to find various ways and continue to work to stop the temperature’s growth.

Secondly, we also can consider reusing goods that we used so that we can be saving resources and preventing emissions from being produced. Many people are apt to prefer new products instead of used ones. Reusing can offers not only the ability to get wealthy individually, but also to provide against the temperature’s growth on the earth. Of course, there are some exceptions in these cases. One of them would be a used car. Rather, using a used car might cause trouble in air pollution. However, the concept of reusing should be taught and spread all over the world in order to make a wealthy and clean society.

Lastly, many countries have driven forward many kinds of recycling businesses to make their own profits as well as to deal with their own environmental problems. In Korea, generally, citizens only make use of collective wastebaskets when throwing away the garbage. I think that that is enough to save the world, no matter how much it is a tiny chore. Recycling should be developed and spread over the international society either directly or indirectly. It seems that recycling would help us overcome the difficulties in global warming.

In conclusion, it is true that international society must be confronted with serious environmental matters these days. Therefore, all countries should be together and continuously work to save our beautiful world. Even though there are many ways to protect the earth from global warming, reducing, reusing, ad recycling are more effective methods that we can easily. Moreover, the specialists and scientists should present it to stop increasing the temperature’s growth on the earth. We are on collaborating together to live happily in the world.

Reference :
Peter, N. (2008, Mar 28). Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf eroding at an unforeseen Pace.csmonitor.com. Retrieved May 8, 2008 from http://www.csmonitor. com/2008/0328/p25s10-wogi.htm