The more I see the spread of the oil spill, the more I think it looks like we set off a oil bomb that is equivalent to an explosion of a nuclear bomb’s mushroom cloud in the ocean!
Then I started thinking about other ways that we are causing damage to our oceans and the corresponding sea life.
This BP oil spill has the potential to kill thousands of sea creatures in addition to making the beaches unappealing to tourist. It’s interesting that we really don’t seem to care about all the dolphins, fish, birds, etc that will be killed in this Oil spill disaster!
So what else are we doing to make our oceans a cesspool? Well, we all know that the United States, Russian and other countries have dumped nuclear waste from their nuclear reactors into the ocean. The United States has stopped that, but I bet some countries still does this (even if it is under the covers).
Garbage also has been dumped into the ocean directly (New York use to do this), but I can guarantee that their are definitely some other countries that are going this still today. Cruise ships still dump their garbage into the ocean when they are out at sea.
Next we have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a slow churning of plastic waste products swirling in the ocean between Hawaii and Japan. It’s size is hard to estimate, some say it’s ranges between the size of Texas to the size of the entire U.S.! The bad thing is that fish are eating the smaller pieces of plastic and then we eventually eat the fish, or other animals eat the fish.
I really have to wonder how much damage we (all countries, not just the U.S.) are doing to the ocean and in the end to ourselves?
-MR
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You are very right Money Reasons. I can’t even look at the video of the oil spewing out. Imagine if they actually captured on film all the other pollution that is going on. We would probably never eat seafood again.
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The scariest part of this disaster are the long-term effects of the spill and the devastation to the ocean ecosystems. This could potentially lead to the demise of other ecosystems on land. I’m worried about the future of our planet. This has to be one of the worst man-made disasters of all time. Very scary.
@Everyday Tips
Very true! And to think I really love seafood! 🙁
I heard on the news that a lot of the sea life in florida is coming in closer to shore to get away from the oil mess…
I’m not to crazy about that plastic island either though… what a mess…
@Little House
I agree, I’m kind of surprised the U.S. doesn’t respond for activitely too… This is horrible, but I think we are too focused on getting BP to do all the work. I think we should be more involved. After all, BP said they will pay, and we need to get this cleaned up ASAP!
There are certain types of bacteria that will inject the oil effectively convert the oil into a more useful form for the ocean.
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I hadn’t heard of that Great Pacific Garbage Patch, what the hell?! Why is no one cleaning it up? That’s amazing in a really gross way…
@Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
I personally think that nobody want to claim it. Nor do they know what to do with it…
But yes, it’s a huge problem that needs a solution of some sort!
Sad, really sad…
The key is…. we all have a hand in this. Also, BP didn’t do this on purpose. Everybody just needs to react and do.
Yeah, I agree on both accounts!
Everybody is so busy point blame and they don’t want to spend any money… But this is an accident, and everybody should act like it instead of trying to lynch BP… Lately it seems like the US gov just like to whip CEO… like they do these things on purpose.
Here’s the deal gov…, CEOs are human just like use!