For over 30 years, the Artic has been suffering. For years and years the artic has been slowly shrinking. The lowest records were previously recorded in 1979, at around 1.54 million sq miles. Yes, that sounds like a large number, but it really isn’t. That lowest recorded rate is 45% less than the average amount of ice caps we used to have. In today’s times because of global warming, our ice caps have now reduced to 25% in the last 10 years. “It’s an account that the Artic is suddenly changing”, said Walt Meier, a scientist from NSDIC. This slowly growing catastrophe caught the attention of many environmentalists hoping that it would bring about some form of change in our society. This however, hasn’t happened. What many people don’t know is what’s really killing us: the expeditiously growing oil drilling industry.
The drilling industry is what’s killing our environment and bringing various ranges of climate changes to our world. Researchers found that there are over 90 billion barrels of oil buried beneath the Artic. This adds up to 13% of the earths’ reserves. 90 BILLION barrels of oil inside of our Artic, and we’re wondering why our climate changes are so random? These changes are caused strictly by the burning of fossil fuels in our world, whether it’s from machine factories for our workers to better the economy, or just cars, we are burning way too many fuels. The result, you ask? The high climate changes that melt the Artic ice. Then from this, the drilling companies send their ships farther and farther north, finding more fuel to burn, and destroying our ozone and climate routines. The heavy amount of drilling and excess climate change is called the “positive feedback cycle”, meaning that carbons are sent into our ozone and air, then the planet warns up, and then our ice caps melt, resulting in the melted caps running into the oceans causing the sea level to rise, or decreasing the water into vapor with the severely hot heat.
Does this positive feedback cycle matter to those drilling companies? No. Considering the fact that the Shell Company began drilling a well 70 miles off the coast of Alaska
Chukchi, but their cries werent’ heard. On August 30th, their drill was approved, and they began to chop and dig into our icy depths. Sure, this new drill created many different jobs for the betterment of our economy, but what is an economy if we’re all drowning in high sea levels, or burning from the high heat? Not to mention the fact that this drill could possibly spill into the depths and could quite possibly be a spill that can never be fixed. What happens to those animals when their habitats are destroyed? And what happens to us when the heat becomes too unbearable? As Port Hope, mayor of the Alaskan Arctic village, told CNN news, “If Shell finds what it thinks is down there, then many other companies are going to come and then it’ll only be a matter of time before something happens down there.” This drilling isn’t something to be taken lightly just because it’s helping us out with jobs. When the catastrophe of our world compromises our economy, something should be done. Obviously human survival is more important than our economy at the moment. If we are dying of heat or suffocation by water, what does our economy matter once we’re gone? Many people don’t know that so many drilling procedures are ruinng ourArctic . If they continue, there won’t be an artic anymore. Just high sea levels and high temperatures.
Chukchi, but their cries werent’ heard. On August 30th, their drill was approved, and they began to chop and dig into our icy depths. Sure, this new drill created many different jobs for the betterment of our economy, but what is an economy if we’re all drowning in high sea levels, or burning from the high heat? Not to mention the fact that this drill could possibly spill into the depths and could quite possibly be a spill that can never be fixed. What happens to those animals when their habitats are destroyed? And what happens to us when the heat becomes too unbearable? As Port Hope, mayor of the Alaskan Arctic village, told CNN news, “If Shell finds what it thinks is down there, then many other companies are going to come and then it’ll only be a matter of time before something happens down there.” This drilling isn’t something to be taken lightly just because it’s helping us out with jobs. When the catastrophe of our world compromises our economy, something should be done. Obviously human survival is more important than our economy at the moment. If we are dying of heat or suffocation by water, what does our economy matter once we’re gone? Many people don’t know that so many drilling procedures are ruinng our
This isn’t the only problem either, people. Obama, our president, hasn’t even tried to stop any of this drilling since the BP oil spill. If that doesn’t pose a problem, I don’t know what does. If this continues, there will be no Arctic , and if it continues after that…there might not be a human race.
http://science.time.com/2012/09/11/arctic-sea-ice-vanishes-and-the-oil-rigs-move-in/
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