The Oil Spill in the Mexican Gulf
The modern-day environmental disasters are unprecedented in mankind’s history because the more people need in these growing industry and increased demand, the more is the quality of resources being obtained. Expanding massively, the oil demand led to highly increased oil extraction thus endangering the eco systems in variety of places around the globe. Environmentalists are currently quite worried about a recent occasion of oil spill that may lead to unrecovarable damages leading to the extinction of thousands of inhabitants of the territories in the Mexican Gulf.
By the 20th of April this year, British Petroleum had been extracting oil from the Mexican territories, 84 kilometers south-east from the Mexican shore. An unfortunate accident ends up with the oil well spilling oil with the amount of almost 5000 barrels a day in the waters of the Gulf, causing an unprecedented environmental catastrophe for both people inhabiting the islands and the shore and the wildlife in the area. Not to mention throwing the market, oil and red diesel suppliers, and environmentalists into a tizzy. Even by making efforts to quickly close the case and find a solution to the oil crisis, BP unsuccessfully sent robots to close the well -the amount of oil being spilled in the waters increases. Such a sceinario may harm these terrotories for centuries ( just an example reveals that Alaska is still healing from an oil spill in 1989) and endanger both Mexico and the USA as dominating states in the area. The costs that are now estimated to be over $450m are increasing thus influencing the oil market and creating a potential oil crisis in the future. This being mentioned apart from the environmental situation seems to be a bothering point since the signs from the world economic crisis have not vanished yet and a certain dramaical increase in the oil price may negatively influence the lifestyle of many households.
To summerize the issue, it is of high importance to note such a environmental disaster has never been encountered in the US history. People have undobtedly become eager to extract more and more from the earth’s resources thus endangering not only the wildlife and the founa of the terriroties harmed, but risking the well being of millions of households. The response to these threats should be a “green”one -people should gradually turn to recovarable and non-polluting means of energy and be cautious because the planet is healing more than slowly and the damages it may suffer might lead to a global climate disaster.