Environmental Activism – For a Pollution-free Planet
Pollution caused by oil spills from tankers is one of the biggest threats to our environment. But it is only one part of the picture. Not many know that oil runoff from cars, trucks, and other vehicles also cause severe marine pollution. When it rains, oil leaked onto roads and driveways is washed into the storm drains, which ultimately flows into lakes or streams.
Used motor oil is the largest source of oil pollution. In fact, of the 20 million gallons of oil that escape into the North American waters every year, only 15% are caused by pipeline or tanker spills. The remaining 17 million gallons are due to oil spills from cars and trucks, fuel dumping by commercial pilots, and contamination by recreational boaters.
Oil leaked from cars pollutes drinking water and waterways in more ways than you can imagine. One of the main reasons why auto fluids are termed as very harmful is that they do not dissolve in water like oil. One pint of motor oil results in a slick that is larger than a football field.
The underground aquifers that supply us drinking water are polluted and cost millions of dollars to municipalities in drinking water treatment and operational expenses. Oil, antifreeze, and break fluids that seep into the water contain heavy metals wrecking havoc on the wildlife. Hypothermia in birds, damage to the immune system in animals, and death of fish are only some of the effects.
All this shows how a simple oversight on our part can pollute our planet. It is our responsibility to take steps to protect our environment. First and foremost is to take steps to prevent oil spills. If an oil spill does occur even after all these, be prepared to deal with it.
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While I do blame BP for this monumental, environmental, diasaster; our national hunger for oil related products is to blame. Obscenely large profits and the greed for them is fueled only by our cooperation with them in using ubiquitous plastic bags, food and beverage containers, and making oil such an intergral part of our national vitality. It is time to place the blame squarely where it really lies…..and that it is us!
We need to get pissed off enough to refuse to use petroleum as indiscriminately as we do now. It is hard not to get really pissed off at BP, but I get really teed off at the fact that each plastic bag, plastic bottle, motor oil change, and even our Starbucks cups had a bigger hand at this.
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