Destruction of The Ocean 

 

I asked my friends, the dolphins, what each of us could do  

To help them survive another million years or two. 

And the dolphins said: 

 

Chorus 

“Keep the ocean clean! That’s the most important thing. 

Please . . . 

Pick your trash up off the beach.  

Recycle your plastic bags. 

Find out what pollutes the sea. 

And ask your friends to help keep the ocean clean. 

After all, the ocean is our home,” said: 

(my friends the dolphins) (the fascinating sharks, oh yeah) 

After the all the ocean is our home. 

 

I asked the fascinating sharks what each of us could do 

To help them survive another million years or two. 

And the pointy snouted blue and the hammerhead too said: 

“You know what to do, you know what to do. 

You know what to do!” (to Chorus) 

 

 

“Imagine,” said the sea turtle, “That you’re as hungry as can be.” 

Well a plastic bag floating by looks a lot like a sea jelly.”  

(And sea turtles love sea jellies!) 

“But swallowing a plastic bag would be the end of me. 

So please keep all kinds of plastic out of the sea.” 

 

“Keep…it…clean…please!”  

 

Final Chorus 

“Keep the ocean clean! That’s the most important thing. 

Please . . .  

Pick your trash up off the beach.  

Recycle your plastic bags. 

Find out what pollutes the sea. 

And ask your friends to help keep the ocean clean, 

After all, the ocean is our home,” said the hungry sea turtles. 

 

“After the all the ocean is our home,” said the whales and 

the fish and the sea otter and the tide pool creatures.  

 

“After all, the ocean is our home,” said the seals and  

the sea lions and the walruses and Oxford the Octopus.  

 

“After all, the ocean is our home. 

After all, the ocean is our home.” 

 

“KEEP THE OCEAN CLEAN” Birdsong and Eco-Wonders, 5-12-2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vyHtYwQz-0

 

These are song lyrics written by Birdsong and the Eco-Wonders. This song stresses the importance of keeping the ocean clean, and how by keeping it clean we will be saving many different species of animals that live in the ocean. Although this is a kid’s song and it’s very corny, that doesn’t take away from the importance of the message it’s trying to send. I think it’s a great way to inform the younger generation about the destruction of the ocean and it’s a great way for them to learn good habits of doing what they can to protect the ocean. Although today’s people are the ones who are destroying the ocean and the animals that live in it, we still have for a cleaner ocean if the generations after ours live a better lifestyle that doesn’t negatively impact the ocean. It will take a long time to reverse the problems in the ocean, after all it didn’t get this bad overnight, but if we start now, we can set the human race on the right course towards a cleaner healthier ocean. The ocean is being polluted by a number of different factors, oil, plastic, noise, chemicals, etc., all of which lower most specie’s, that live in the ocean, chances to survive. Imagine that a few generations from now your great great granddaughter grows up in a world where the ocean is empty and she’ll never see a hawksbill turtle in her life, or the ocean is so bad that she can’t even swim in it. Both of these scenarios are possible if we continue down this path, but she could grow up in a world where the ocean is clean and the animals in it are thriving, that is also a very possible scenario, but it all depends on what we do today in our genration.