Pollution
By: Finley Warren
Have you ever wondered what littering does to the environment? In the passages, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson it discusses the topic of littering and pollution. For example, in “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”, it talks about how if we drink tap and use reusable water bottles instead of plastic water bottles, we could help the environment allot more. It also talks about how a woman makes art out of trash on beaches to help people to understand the harm done to ocean animals in “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two articles.
In the articles, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, they main topic are very different but just as much the same. In this paragraph I will discuss how the two articles are similar. First of all, they both tell about something or even the topic that hurts the environment and what’s living in it. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”, it talks about the fact that we manufacture 29 billion water bottles a year. This means that we also have to produce great amounts of fossil fuels. In the same way, the article, “Art for Ocean Animals” talks about the art pieces made out of garbage. All the trash used in the pieces of art are collected on the beach. These art pieces show that the ocean animals are hurt by water pollution. These two passages are also alike because in “Art for Ocean Animals” it is mainly about garage that hurts marine animals helps spread awareness. This garbage is created into sculptures that support helping marine life. In the same way, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” also talks about trash getting in the in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Although this article is mainly about about the debate for bottled water or from the tap, it also talks about plastic bottles getting in main water sources. For example it states, “Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.” This is another reason why these topics are similar. Lastly, these two texts are alike because in they both discuss examples about how you help stop pollution in the two texts. This is because in “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, it says that Pozzi states,”kids have lots of power”, and she says talks about how kids can help this cause. In the same way, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke it gives an details about how you can drink from the tap instead of bottled water. This is why I thin the articles, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson are alike, although they are very different.
In the passages, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, it talks about two different topics on pollution, and would be surprised how unalike these texts are. In this paragraph I will discuss how these articles are different from each other. For example, I noticed the fact that one is about helping marine life and another is about plastic water bottles. As you can see, they already don’t have much in common. This because although they both include water, in “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke, it is mostly about the plastic to make the bottle and how much pollution it creates. Unlike “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, it is all about the water that sea animals live in. Another reason why these topics are different is because in “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson it is mainly about how one adult helps with volunteers, and it doesn’t really talk about how kids can help other than a few sentences. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox, it talks about in general how much pollution it is giving off and a few changes you can make to help the environment on the topic. This is how I feel the passages, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson differ from each other.
In the articles, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson they are very similar, yet so different. I also feel that if I wanted to live on Earth, I would want it clean and less polluted than it already is. I feel that vast amount of people would like to help they just don’t know how. With articles like these, it could many people, including myself see how to help even with a small change such as using refillable water bottles. I don’t think people would want to live in a world without articles like these informing us how to help the environment. This is how I feel about the passages, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson. This finishes up my pollution compare and contrast essay.