Humans Have Affected the Antarctic Term Paper

The plan would be the result of the scientific method, through which the impacts and causes of the current environmental problems would be addressed. Additionally, the scientific method would sit at the basis of the future actions to be taken. These would traditionally include:

The search for alternative sources of energy

The search for renewable sources of energy

The creation of an infrastructure which allowed the propagation and populous use of alternative energies

The education of the population to reduce their levels of consumerism to life necessities

The implementation of stricter regulations which punish economic agents who pollute waters or cut the forests in an unsustainable manner

Replant forests, clean waters and support the sustainable life of the endangered species.

At a smaller size and specific level, the alternative and immediate action to be taken is that of reducing the harvesting of krill by commercial fishermen. This would be achieved through legislative means which forbade the harvesting of fish. The local authorities would supervisee the regions where krill grew and was being collected, and fined the commercial fishermen which engaged in harvesting operations.

Also, at the specific level of the food web in Antarctica, other alternatives are available, as follows:

Designing and implementing a stricter plan of krill control in the Antarctic.This new management of the ecosystem would ensure the sufficiency of krill and the limitation of non-natural predators. Additionally, it would be developed in such a manner to include the developments in global climate change.

Eliminate the risk of excessive fishery in the region, or at least limit the adherent activities until the stability of the food web is better assured

Finally, it is necessary to recognize the problems of the food web and to promote them at global scale, in order to attract the awareness and support of other groups as well. In other words, it is pivotal to recognize "that the Antarctic's unique character as the last great wilderness, as home to exceptional concentrations of biodiversity including penguins, whales, and albatrosses, and its critical role in global environmental processes, requires special conservation actions, including but not limited to protected and closed areas" (Antarctic Krill Conservation Project).

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Antarctic krill conservation project statement of principles and core goals, Antarctic Krill Conservation Project, http://www.krillcount.org/solutions.html last accessed on October 14, 2010.....