Hey Charlie,

For my first article, I’d like to talk to you about a subject that is very important to me : ecology, our planet's future and specialy the importance of the oceans.

Even if they are vital, human beings are still threatening the oceans in several ways : pollution, overfishing, by throwing away trashes… But we need to protect them : because of them we can eat and breath, without them we are doomed. They are also important for the economy, according to the WWF if it were a country it would be the 7th richest with a GDP of 2 500 bilion dollars, for example UK’s GDP is 2 900 bilion dollars.

We have known that for while but the UN decided react three weeks ago : on december the thirthteen with a meeting in Nairobi where many countries signed an agreement to struggle against plastic pollution. Nowadays plastic is a real problem : every year eight milion tones of plastic are thrown in the oceans. It lead to create a seventh continent near California which is only made of plastic. However it wouldn’t be difficult to solve this problem. As the Helmholtz center for environement research showed, 90 % of the plastic that comes in the oceans is from ten rivers which are all located in Asia or in Africa, the most polluting being the Yangtze river with 1,5 milion tones of plastic thrown in the sea.

here is the plastic continent:

And here is the Yangtze river's location :

Finally, it seems that the UN understood how important the oceans are, and that they are more than useful for us and that their protection is crucial for us, still we have to see if the agreement is just a piece of paper or something stronger that can save human beings,