Evolo Competition

Design Statement

Humans, we continuously pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and have caused the ocean to receive the impact. The world’s seas have absorbed approximately 90 percent of the warmth from these gases. Expansion of water at higher temperatures and melting ice sheets on the north and south poles cause the rise in sea water level. It has become one of the largest resulting threats to cities round the world. Scientists at the non-profit organisation Climate Central estimate that approximately 275 million people across the globe live in areas that will eventually be flooded at 3°C of this global warming. Asian cities should have worried because based on the data they will be the worst affected by the nature force majeure. Other than that, the ocean is also being threatened by the foremost pressing environmental issues which is the plastic pollution. It is most visible in developing Asian and African nations where the systems are often inefficient or non-existent. Most of the plastic trash within the ocean, Earth’s last sink, flows from the land, puzzled and remains in the coastal water. It has been scientifically proven that over 80% of aquatic pollution is caused by land-based activities. Trapped in the ocean currents, the trash was transported around the world. Both of these issues will be inextricably intertwined in the future and will affect humans.