San Luis Obispo High School is approximately 10.9 miles away from the most popular summer hangout spot for SLOHS students, Avila Beach. As everyone knows and at this point can feel it, the earth is getting hotter. The tennis courts are sizzling and the sun burns are getting increasingly redder, but no one seems to notice the tremendous effect this global climate change has on not only our own backyard oceans such as Avila, Montana De Oro, Pismo, and more but the detrimental consequences it has on ocean life such as the coral reefs.

   Although many of our own SLOHS students vacation in Hawaii and tropical locations to soak in the warm water and lava-like sun, the coral reefs are depleting every day. By 2050, more than ninety percent of all coral reefs will be dead, causing disruption throughout trickling ecosystems. This rapid loss and destruction will affect our oceans and the places many students and families dream of visiting. Humans and our own SLOHS students can make a change to this horrific collapse by reducing the number of fossil fuels we admit into the atmosphere which is ultimately absorbed by our oceans creating a big heat increase. Biking, carpooling, turning off unnecessary lights and bringing awareness are all simple tasks even the laziest could do easily. Without help, Nemo won’t be able to find his family and the whole world of the oceans coral and secret species will go undiscovered and lost for good. Now it’s time to climate change your attitude.