Ocean Polution
... almost 80 % of our world’s coral reef will be damaged beyond repair.  The single most important reason why coral reefs are dying is that there are too many people on this planet. The believe that if the focuses of our conservation efforts are directed to benefit the local people, like feeding them, or providing them with resources to benefit from the eco - tourism, the reef will save itself. If long-term conservation is to take place - it is dependent on our capacity to persuade local people that they will be ‘better off’ protecting the natural system than degrading it, by creation of markets for goods and services in an environmentally manner. If local people gain from sustainable use of the coral reef through tourism, they will protect this asset and may even invest future resources into it. All of us want a safer, less-polluted environment. Increasingly, people throughout the world have become aware that we are damaging our environment in many ways, harming ourselves and threatening the welfare of future generations. While most agree that pollution needs to be controlled, there is much debate about how to do it. One method that definitely does not work is the collectivist approach of declaring that the earth is the "common property of all." Property that belongs to "everyone" becomes the responsibility of no one. Making seas, rivers, pastures or forests common property creates an enormous incentive for each person to exploit them as quickly as possible. For example, the United States has been able to address unilaterally many of the risks associated with toxic chemicals within its own borders. But other countries' use of some toxic chemicals that do not biodegrade means that such chemicals can enter both the local and global food chain. What failed a method of protecting property is government ownership and management. People often think that government employees will protect the "public interest" because they are motivated by "the public good" rather than by profits. However, in any society there is not one, single public interest, but, instead, many different publics with diverse, often conflicting interests. Different groups may want to use the same land to build houses, as a military base, or for a wilderness area. Which "public interest" should government managers uphold? When government controls property, the desires of government agents and powerful social groups (such as large corporations and wealthy political contributors) will usually prevail over the interests of ordinary citizens. Both the environment and the public are usually losers. Here is an example. U.S. Toxic Waste Dumps. According to Pentagon spokesman Kevin Doxey, in 1991 there were 17,400 contaminated toxic waste dumps at 1,850 U.S. government installations. Waste from these sites is leaking into groundwater, contaminating land, killing livestock, and causing increased rates of cancers. When outraged citizens have tried to sue the governme...