And then, the issued tankers sometimes sink and sometimes have collisions, and vast spillages occur causing oil slicks which are sometimes miles and miles long. As a result of these oil slicks which gradually come towards the coast, we have a poisoning of fish life and sea birds, and this makes the beaches unfit for either the local residents or for holiday-makers to use And it's a dirty sight, a tragic sight. The sea birds, for example, are covered in thick black oil, and they have no chance of survival unless people can get to them early and clean their bodies, clean their wings of this oil.
So the great cost to natural life – we've been endangering the other creatures of Earth in our greed for more and more oil. And the economic cost of cleaning up these oil slicks is enormous and fines that are imposed upon owners if tankers from which oil is spilt, but the fines themselves are derisory, they are not nearly heavy enough! Many tanker captains deliberately flush out the holes of their vessels in foreign ports leaving the foul mess for other people to clean up, and the fines they pay if they are caught – which is not always the case – are literally peanuts.
Atmospheric Pollution .
And then there are carbon emissions from our factories and from the traffic. The emissions from the exhausts of cars and other vehicles on the roads are largely responsible for the atmospheric pollution from which we are suffering these days. These emissions cause acid rain which, when it falls upon the ground, is harmful to plant life and, to some extent, to animal life, too. We are told by those who are supposed to know about these things that the atmospheric temperature throughout the world, the average temperature is rising very slightly, and the result of this is the so-called global warming, which is only by 1 or 2 degrees, perhaps not even as much as 2 degrees will be the so-called greenhouse effect.
