Interviewing: A fish.

The following is the thoughts of a fish in the ocean:         

I am living in the biggest home on earth shared to the most abundant variety of animal species. My home, however, is changing; not because I did it, nor did any of my fellow friends whom I have shared my living place with.   However, it is changing because of these strangers up on land.  I am pretty sure I have never done anything to those strangers on the land; nevertheless, they are famous for their cruel behaviors and un-empathetic lifestyles.    

          I heard that everything started back twenty years ago, before I was born. But this material was discovered five years before this catastrophe. By catastrophe, I really do mean it. My parents used to warn me, not to go near the “Giant Patch”. I know it is a terrible name, but what’s worse is that we do not know exactly where it is located. This patch is annually increasing; it is making its way around and filling up our homes. From what I heard, our friends, marine birds, reptile, fish, get entangled in plastic or mistaken plastic as food, then eat it. Imagine how wide is the ocean is, forty-six thousand of plastic is found in every square mile in the ocean. Per year, approximately one million seabirds and 100,000 sea animals die from plastic.

         Do not underestimate those animals, and think we’re not smart enough. If we suddenly get entangled in a plastic bag, it’s not our fault, because either we cannot see it or think we can swim through it. Remember that this is our home, instead of feeling scared, we should feel secure and protected. For those animals who mistake plastic as food, it is also not strange. In some places in the ocean, plastic has a ratio to plankton of 6:1, which could result in sea turtles thinking that plastic bags are jellyfish.      

         Those ones up on land produce 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags annually, with only one to three percent recycled. Americans discard about three billion pounds of plastic bags annually. If we were to line up, three billion plastic bags, they can circle the globe one foot high and one foot wide six times! That is a lot for only one year. Plastics are not biodegradable. They do get broken up, but does not go away, and where does it all go next? To the oceans, our home.