Hannah Highlights Sustainability

  Paul Greenberg gave an eye-opening TED Talk titled “The four fish we’re overeating - and what to eat instead.” Greenberg talks on the damage which overfishing has done to certain fish populations and consequently the ocean environment as a whole. First, he shares how in order to catch a pound of shrimp, which is a seafood commonly eaten in America and most of the West, up to 15 pounds of wild fish are killed. This wild fish bycatch is taken out of the ocean ecosystem and then turned into food for shrimp, which Greenberg describes as, “an ecosystem literally eating itself and spitting out shrimp.”  In addition, catching and selling shrimp is extremely fuel inefficient and carbon-intensive which further makes it environmentally unsustainable. The farming of shrimp also comes along with the destruction of wild habitats in mangrove forests, impacting even more of the natural world.      Shrimp and their extensive bycatch. Furthermore, tuna has sustainability issues. Tuna is a global fis

I listened to an inspiring podcast earlier titled “How to Save a Planet” , and the specific episode I was able to enjoy was titled The Tribe that’s moving earth (and water) to solve the climate crisis . The overall theme of this podcast is to observe and share sustainable practices in order to save the earth from the threats which are posed on it such as climate change. In this episode, a member of the Yurok Tribe was interviewed about the impressive and sustainable practices utilized by this tribe in order to fight climate change. The member who was interviewed was Frankie Meyers who is the Vice-Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. In the beginning of the podcast, it was expressed that the Yurok Tribe originally controlled half a million acres of land, but unfortunately by 1986, they only controlled just under 5,000 acres. This injustice experienced by the tribe is startling, but in order to gain some land back, the Yurok Tribe took out a loan and purchased two watersheds. A watershed is the