...but in a way, it affects everyone's lives.
Did you know that 6,000 tons of sunscreen washes off of people's skin and goes into the ocean every year. That sounds pretty significant, but I would assume its no big deal in the large scheme of things. Its just a few tons of sunscreen in billions upon billions of gallons of ocean water, right?
Here is the clincher: Four common chemicals that are found in sunscreen activate dormit viruses on coral reefs. That means that you and millions of other people- rubbing in Banana Boat sunscreen and going skinny-dipping - are essentially threating the lives of the coral reefs. This might be a one of many reasons that the reefs are dying off.
My source: http://realitysandwich.com/sunscreen_chemicals_threaten_coral_reefs
Here is the other clincher: No Reefs + circle of life (loss of natural ecosystems) = Death
I'm not particularly a tree hugger, or a reef hugger for that mater, but I just thought I would throw that out there.
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