Are we responsible for the Gulf Oil Spill? How much less oil can we really use?
Mark Mykleby, the author of a Letter to the Editor of the Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina, writes: "The oil spill is my fault. I'm sorry. I haven't done my part." "Here's the bottom line:" he says, "If we want to end our oil addiction, we, as citizens, need to pony up -- bike to work, plant a garden, do something." Mykleby and others are calling for us as citizens to look at how our lifestyles rely on cheap oil, and thus provide the demand that sent BP out to harvest the stuff in pristine and difficult to reach places. "Of course," as Thoms Friedman says, "we expected them to take care, but when you’re drilling for oil beneath 5,000 feet of water, stuff happens." The question is: to what extent can our individual behaviors reduce the demand for oil? Riding a bike, planting a garden, taking public transportation, staying away from plastic bags and water bottles-- how much can these individual actions really add up to a big decrease in the demand for oil?
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We are all responsible for such a disaster as oil spill. It's really sad to see poor animals trying to survive in this oil mess, suffering, but fighting. I hope there will never be oil spills again, it's 21st century after all!
It's indeed true that we, people of this Earth, are responsible in our every act. If we do good for the nature, then something good will come to us. But nowadays, people do not even care how they treat the nature and all the things existing in there.
indirectly, maybe we are one of the culprit. i mean it's just the fact that since we buy gasoline or oil in a gas station then that's the way i based my answer. because of human only doesn't used car then who will care to bring those tons of oil to our mainland, right.
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