The Gulf oil spill, it's impact on our lives and our environment

For the past few months, we have been dealing with a great issue of the oil spill, how vast it is, how many people are gonna be affected, and finding a solution to cap out the leak. Several ways have been attempted to block it but unfortunately was unsuccessful. As we waited for a solution, the leak is slowly reaching to the other parts of the coast resulting in much more widespread damage to states as far as Alabama and Florida. Watching the news about it and its effects to the immediate environment is very disheartening. Pelicans dying from being covered in oil, birds that fed and depend on the fish for food are going to be exposed to oil, business are losing income because people lose interest in swimming in an oil covered beach and above all, the lose of livelihood of the people that mainly rely on the gulf coast for their daily living.

As I watched the millions of gallons of oil gushing through the gulf, there are so many things that came to my mind and some lessons learned as well. I think that we as Americans need to implement a legislation to make sure that these oil rigs are ready to respond or have an alternate solution to quickly cap a leak in the event that something like this happens. I believe that it is our duty to protect our environment and to look after for ours and our children's interests. If there was an alternative plan in place, i don't think the scale of the damage caused would be as bad and i hope that we and especially the government will learn from this.

The damage has already been done- How many people are affected? How many families that the lives have changed and moved because their livelihood is gone? How many children watched it with their eyes the damage that was done to the pelicans, crabs, shrimps, businesses and mostly to their parents who lose their jobs? What are we going to tell them? How is it gonna affect them and our environment in general? Is the clean up efforts enough to assure the people that things are going to be the same as it was before? What about the issue of BP using too much toxins during the clean up?

We have done so much to our environment as it is, one less thing to worry about would be great, isn't it? Whatever we put in to it is what we will get back. While BP is doing the best it can to aid in this disaster, we as a whole population need to take action to make sure that something like this won't happen again. I hope for the greater part of the population that are affected by this that they will be able to rebuild what was lost and resume the lives they have known in the gulf.

We need to safeguard our environment because it is our duty and we owe it to our children.