Lesson "Natural Resources in the Baltic Sea". LITHUANIA
During our geography lesson, the 1st Class students had an opportunity to talk about the problems which the Baltic Sea is facing. After we had read the textbook, the teacher once again highlighted the biggest sources of pollution and after our discussion, we even thought of several more. The exercises helped to identify the most relevant problems and we decided which of them are the most serious.
In the exercise,
we highlighted the following issues:
1.
Landfills
2.
Oil
spills
3.
Extraction
and production of construction materials
4.
Weapons
sunk after World War II
5.
Shipping
6.
Industry,
energy
7.
Fertilizers
8.
Pesticides
9.
Urban
and settlement wastewater|
10. Exhaust gases
We picked out 3
problems that seemed the most serious and made suggestions how to solve them.
1.
Chemical
weapons - more funding should be provided for their search and destruction because
the longer they lie on the seabed, the more damage they cause.
2.
Oil
spills – new ship models should be designed that would not spill oil into the
sea after an accident and special forces could safely transport oil to the
shore without any damage to nature.
3.
Shipping
should be restricted and clear criteria should be introduced which ships could
sail because of their pollution and harm to the sea.
Although the Baltic Sea is popular with
tourists, some people already call it the Dying Sea and if we don’t do anything,
the situation will only get worse. A big plus is that we are familiar with
these environmental problems before they have reached the critical level and it
is still possible to solve them