文章大意:这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了如今海洋面临严重的塑料污染。最近,一项研究对废弃塑料对海洋生态系统造成的破坏发出了新的警告,由于我们食用的海鲜,这些塑料最终会影响人类的健康。
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Fresh warning sounded on plastics problem
Walk along any beach in the world, no matter how isolated, and you will see plastic of some kind washed up on the shoreline, 62 (offer) a reminder of the reckless throwaway culture of the present-day world.
Lately, a study 63 (sound) a fresh warning on the damage caused to the marine ecosystem due to discarded plastics, which eventually has a bearing on human health due to the seafood we consume.
In a paper 64 (title) “A Growing Plastic Smog” published on March 8, 2023 in the peer-reviewed research journal Plos One, researchers called on governments around the world 65 (take) sweeping action to address the “unprecedented plastic pollution” of the world’s oceans.
The plastics break down over time into minute particles that cannot be detected by the naked eye, but find their way into the marine ecosystem and into the seafood humans consume. No one knows for certain 66 the long-term damage will be to marine life and humans, but the study placed much of the blame on the plastics industry for failing to recycle or design for recyclability. “ 67 eaten, microplastics can severely damage an animal’s internal tissues. Globally, we have reached a situation 68 we can no longer ignore the plastic pollution pandemic that is infecting our oceans,” he said.
“This research shows us that beach cleanups and citizen science projects that focus on the environmental fate of plastics have little impact on solving the enormity of the plastic problem. Marcus Eriksen, lead author of the study, said in a statement that the findings were a “stark warning 69 we must act now at a global scale”. “We’ve found an alarming trend of exponential growth of microplastics in the global ocean since the millennium, which 70 (expect) to reach over 170 trillion plastic particles,” said Eriksen, adding that the exponential increase in microplastics across the world’s oceans makes 71 necessary to “bring in an age of corporate responsibility for the entire life of the things they make”.