Can nature recover from the Gulf oil spill????
By Annie7677
@Annie7677 (20)
United States
June 7, 2010 2:06am CST
What are the oil spill consequences for our oceans and marshes? The damage to our ecosystem is unimaginable. My heart is heavy. We've seen earthquakes and hurricanes, tornado's and volcano's but none could inflict the destruction upon our environment that we humans have. Does this feel like Armageddon???
3 responses
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
7 Jun 10
yes... if the planet can recover from being hit by a massive meteorite, and whatever caused the great Permian die off, we can recover from a little oil spill...
(okay - okay - I know its a good sized oil spill, but it isn't going to change life on the planet as we know it)
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
7 Jun 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian-Triassic_extinction_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous-Tertiary_extinction_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T_boundary
I'm sorry, this is a BLIP on the history of the world - not even CLOSE to the ice ages
Stop thinking that TODAY is all that matters, ask - will it be important in 1,000 years, how about 10,000 years... 1,000,000 years
take off your "blinders" and realize this is just a temporary thing, it will not cause any mass extinctions you are looking with too narrow a view - I hate it when people do that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinders
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
12 Jul 10
It will certainly take many years for the environment and the ecosystems along the Gulf Coast to recover from the oil spill. The Exxon Valdez spill occurred in 1989 off the coast of Alaska, and from what I understand, the effects of that oil spill are still being felt along the coast there, even though the incident happened over 20 years ago. I am certainly curious to see how long this oil spill will affect our coast here in Florida. I live in Pensacola, and I know people who are being affected by this disaster...
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@sender621 (14893)
• United States
7 Jun 10
I think that nature can recover from the Gulf oil spill. One huge dilemma in this equation is time. It takes so long for somethings to gain renewal. Will something else be destroyed before the renewal process has a chance to be? The environment is something precious to all of us. We want there to be a beautiful world for our children and future generations to enjoy. Nature will showly recover but at what price?
@xeroeight (1060)
• Philippines
7 Jun 10
Well For me I think its yes but it will take many years to recover because even if the oil will take out people still and will continue in destroying our nature.
The Armageddon your saying like in 2012 movie?, well I hope it will not happen I have seen one just like that in the news the big hole I can't remember the name of the country but they said a whole factory was eaten by that big whole.
I wish people will realize the importance of nature and how it may affect in our daily live we should all take care of our nature so our earth will remain in its normal phase in changing.
I created a blog about preserving our nature using my digital camera I hope when people saw my photos it may push them to realize how beautiful our planet is.
