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The Individual and the Natural World

Introduction

This is going to be a very interesting study since we will explore the environmental issues around us that have the capability of affecting us and our lives deeply. And not only us, the whole environment and the life cycle that a necessary part of our lives where even if one thing gets affected everything get to face the outcomes. In this assignment, I have selected two topics first one is the oil spill and second is the water scarcity and as all of us are aware of the fact that these problems have some major consequences and once these crises hit any specific area, the surroundings have to go through long term affects because if the oil spill takes place in a specific sea or ocean, the sea life and the surrounding even results in different kinds of pollution. And the water scarcity is a significant problem because without water life cannot exist on the planet earth, since it is the basic necessity of life and every living thing needs water to survive either way or the other. All these problems can result in major problems for the nature and the beings.

Article 1: “Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)”

There was a huge explosion that took place in April, 2010, on board the Deepwater Horizon, a pierced put together within the Gulf of Mexico attached to the well that was owned by Bp the oil company that resulted to worlds major unintentional oil spill in the history. But still the Bp oil company was fined by the federal government and also the Clean Water Act, because a lot damage was created because of this, there were many people and life under the sea that was effected by this incident and it was huge task to get the situation back to normal since a huge amount was required to get this situation fixed. But it was seen that the situation was brought under control soon, where the people were able to get their jobs back the life under the water was made safe and it was confirmed that the consumption of the seafood was safe now. Many investigations were done to find the different errors that resulted in this incident by BP.

There were many things settled between the damage caused by the BP so they even agreed regarding the economic damages that were caused by the spilling of the oil. This also resulted in causing a lot of damage because it was observed that spill had touched the shores of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. And because of spill that touched the shores, the lives of the tourists and fisherman who were working for generations through the specific source of income was damaged. By the end of Nov, 2010 this issue began settling and the situation had started to get into control. The government in this whole process was not acting reliable enough because since the beginning of this incident ...