310 DB1 REP2 (75 WORDS)

There are a lot of natural resources in the world and the ocean is one of them.  Since the ocean covers 70 percent of the earth it is the largest natural resource for us.  When it comes to this natural resource it comes with direct and indirect environmental values, one main direct environmental value would be educational and scientific values, in our text the author states “if a scientist uses a particular mineral, body of water, or species for research that advances knowledge, we may attribute that to scientific value” (Dale, 2015).  This certain scientific value brings a lot of value to the ocean since about 91 percent of the species in the ocean still need to be identified (Mora, Tittensor, Adl, Simpson, & Worm, 2011).  As for indirect values there could be a lot as well, however one of the indirect values could come to pass in the future if the ocean begins to dry up, this would be a scarcity value which is a value that humans hold of a resource that eventual becomes rare (Dale, 2015).  As for putting a value on the ocean I think that we can not put a value on this natural resource since we can not put a market value on the ocean.