4 Dec 12
Oil Spills
by
[5th Grade Student]
Let’s go to Imagination Land. You are a whale, you need to swim up to the
water surface to breathe and you can’t see anything other than a big thick
layer of oil. What will you do? What do you think? Later, as you move
around, you see all the oil spread far across the ocean and see numerous
dead sea creatures.
Oil spills are one of the biggest man­made disasters that can happen.
They can affect animals and destroy the environment they spill into. Oil
spills in water are especially devastating as they can spread for hundreds
of miles. However, oil spills on land can also be quite dangerous and
deadly as they can destroy forests and rivers.
It is our duty to look after our natural environment and to ensure animals
are not becoming extinct. Once an animal specie is lost it is gone for good
and cannot be replaced. What a sad world it will be if we end up with less
animals and varieties of plants. Our bio­diversity will suffer. Oil companies
need to respect the environment!
There are many solutions to these dreadful disasters. There most
common ones are: Put a boom (floating balloon­like fence) around the spill
so it doesn’t spread any further; use chemicals to break up the oil spill
such as dispersants to break up the oil; or use super absorbent materials
to soak the oil.
If we are to reduce the number of damaging oil spills in the world, we
need to ensure that oil companies take greater care when extracting oil
and that they run environmental protection programmes. So let’s take
action now!
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