I posted about the 2010 BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, with
the following article...
Do you believe that environmental crises such as this affect
you/your family today?
"Where
I live there are not natural crises. I live in San Diego, on a fault line but
it’s not something that I think about everyday and I don’t think about it day
to day or even often."
"Ok, so I think that environmental crises of
this magnitude can definitely affect my family today. Probably not huge oil
spills because I don't live by the Gulf of Mexico, but other things such as
man-created Forrest fires, etc. since I'm from Southern California."
"This "environmental crisis" has
certainly affected me. The article states that there was a 6 month moratorium
on deep water drilling in US waters which meant a lower domestic supply of oil
to refine, which led, at least in part, to increased gas prices. From a
business standpoint, BP made mistakes in procedure leading up to this accident.
As a result the gov't has imposed further regulations, which may or may not
make any difference in preventing future "accidents"."
"Besides our government spending more money when
we are already in debt and my family probably needing to help pay for the fund,
I don't think that this crisis really affects me or my family because we don't
live in or close to Louisiana and I haven't heard much of it on the local news.
It is a sad occurrence though that needs to be fixed because it is affecting
other people's lives, even if it does not so much affect mine."
"It Indirectly effects my life because tax money was used for
the clean up, and tax revenue was lost because of the issues it caused. We also
don't know the long term damage done to the environment."
"I think it does effect me and my family
indirectly. It will effect us economically as well as environmentally, but in
todays world I think we choose to be ignorant and ignore thing like this that
could potentially put us in danger. It's the sad truth that we bury ourselves
in the lies that social media feeds us and there are a great number of things
that go on that we have no idea about. However at the same time when people
bring up environmental issues, people tend to change the subject as quickly as
possible either because they are mis informed or they just don't care, even
though they should."
"It definitely affects us all. Not only financially but health
wise. Which creates a bigger problem than it already is. As it is
considered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It has already
made its way to the Florida Keys, which means that oil on beaches is extremely
dangerous specifically in woman and children. Besides the common symptoms
throat irritation, cough, chest pains and headaches it can cause deformities
and birth defects to an unborn fetus. It has already hit land, which means it
will ruin any rice or sugar plantations. Over all whether or not we are
near the area of crisis it will keep spreading inland and will continue to be a
huge problem and loss to our country."
"I
guess I don’t know how directly it would affect my family’s day-to-day life. I
don’t think it would but I do think it affects the way of our environment and
this would then affect my family in someway because we are inhabitants of this
earth."
"I
think that my family is not directly affected by an occurrence directly like
this one just because I don’t live close to it. But I do think that it still
affects us because it will definitely change things in the environment because
a huge oil spill is not good for that and therefore we will be affected in some
way or another."
"This
directly affects my family because when things like this happen we recognize
and are more educated on what goes on around us. It may not be in our local
neighborhood but it is on our planet and this is something that we all need to
work together to maintain for the health and safety of everyone."
My
reactions to the following questions were...
1.Do
you believe that environmental crises such as this affect you/your family
today?
I have an opinion similar to the
others previously stated, I think my family is indirectly affected by an incident
such as this one. Mainly because I don’t personally live close to the area that
was mostly affected. If I lived closer than I would believe that I was directly
affected. Even though my family wasn't directly affected, I believe there is
many possibilities that would suggest we have been indirectly affected because
this disaster affected the environment as a whole.
2.Based on the impact environmental
tragedies affect you/your family how likely are you to take action against
disasters like this one?
I don’t think I personally
would be inclined to take much action against tragedies such as this one, just
because I was not personally affected by it. This isn't saying that I wouldn't
do anything at all but I don’t think I would seek out ways to help the cause.
3. In your opinion are environmental hazards something we
should be concerned about on a daily basis.
I don’t think that environmental hazards are something we should
be concerned about on a daily basis because then we would all just become a
paranoid population who refuses to live life. But I think that there should be
thought into things that effect the wellness of the environment like recycling,
using less water, picking up litter, etc. Doing things like this could bring
about change and a reduced amount of environmental disasters and hazards.
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