Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Who owns the ocean's minerals????????????????

 My first thoughts
Today in science the teacher asked us a tricky question " Who owns the ocean's minerals?". At first I thought "Nobody the sea is to the animals and nature and we shall let it like that". But after some reflection I thought" If the poor countries own the sea and it's mineral.,hey could have money to develop and less people will die of hunger eatch days, also if the sea owned to sombody the country will care mor about it and will probably trie harder to stop water pollution so it would be good for nature"
 
Identify the problem
We all know that each piece of land owns to a country, but have you ever thought about who owns the Ocean and it's mineral? Each ocean is surrounded by many different countries and as the Law of Sea explains, oceans are the common property of everybody  on earth. But here is the problem, The ocean is full of minerals that could help a lot of poor countries to develop but here is the problem: Only rich countries can afford the mining!

Wealthy+  Developing
Some very poor countries like in south Africa are in fact very rich they are full od diamonds and other minerals, but mining diamonds require a lot of expansive material and those countries need a big amount of money to begin mining. Sadly they don't have it.

Solution+ solution
A good thing would be that rich countries share the money of the minerals with the closest country , so it would be good cause if the nearest country is poor after a certain amount of time this developing country will have enough money to mine on their self and begin a whole new economy.



1 comment:

  1. I agree with your statement that if the nearest country is poor then they should share the minerals. How do you feel about the minerals in the ARctic?

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