The day-to-day use of our planet is slowly but surely deteriorating before our very own eyes. As humans use our beautiful land around the world to reside, work, and travel, many aren’t concerned or aware of the first hand impacts we are creating for the future of our planet. From oils spill and pollution, to killing off animals and endangered species, our planet is taking hits from human impact 24/7. From watching the films provided, I was able to understand and see how disaster like BP oil spill and the Exxon oil spill have made an impact on our environment to this day. Seeing the hurt that humans and animals have to go through in these types of disasters truly breaks your heart and makes one think, there must be a better way to do this. While I’m sure there is, we have not had the proper advancements and enforcements to makes sure that events like these done happen again. In going forward in this discussion, I will aim to uncover my feelings while using the facts to understand why we still operate this way to this day.
Now you may be wondering, why is this relevant to the tourism industry? Well, the way in which these situations were handled still put many of these environments at severe risk allowing for a lack in life in some of these areas. If animals can’t live happily in their environment without consuming some kind of toxin, I’m pretty sure these areas aren’t too great for tourists coming to visit these spots as well. Seeing in these films that problems still occur from events that occurred years to decades ago shows the lack of accountability overall with our environment. As the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska still faces rough conditions, some wonder when anything will be done to truly wipe out this pressing issue? I think personally this starts with the leadership within these major company needing a shift in focus. Rather than running their business while concerned about the environment, I think that the environment should be the number one factor before doing any business. Having research to show methods that will not have the same impacts as previous times will be the only way consumer can have hope for these types of industries. The government also plays a major role, as the steps they take can be enforced and abided by overall in an environmentally friendly way.
Not only do I think that this lies within the corruption of our planet, but specifically our country. As numerous politicians (republican and democrat) have held office over these major crises, I still find it humors that this has not opened the eyes of our leaders. You would think that since we are still battling many of the effects from these crises that a leader would arise. I truly think that these companies got away with this big time and allowed for conditions to worsen within our environment, yet many just forgot about these events that occurred. Holding them more accountable not only financially, but overall in future drilling procedures should’ve have been taken immediately showing that the US is not tolerate any of these situations. Unfortunately, that was not the case and we are still battling the after math of these environmental impacts.
Understanding my opinion, I think that fracking is intolerable, and we should be finding more reusable and clean ways to do so. As there are so many options, we have yet to make the proper investments to properly reduce and solve these common issues. Overall, I think it should be banned in general, but in the society we live in today would not allow that. Instead coming back to the main focus of accountability is what a leader in our government needs to do. While banning it would be tough, implementing laws, regulations and best practices would be ideal overall. Leaders like Bernie Sanders have expressed their opinions on this issue and full support the need for reform within the oil industry. In thinking preventive measures, I would say gaining support from leaders in the senate and house to persuade banning at local and state levels that would create a movement. From this, we as a society can go forward in the coming years even more if discusses these environmental issues sooner than later. When it does happen though, knowing the best options for companies to recover the environment and gain consumers trust back overall is key. Creating new best practices when preventing and taking care of an oil spill is beyond necessary, as this country needs solid reform in the oil industry.
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In looking at the article I found, it relates to the current COVID-19 pandemic and how we have seen a constant reduction in environmental impacts across the globe. This focuses on the island of Bali in Indonesia, as they aim to reform and rethink their current environmental situations. Preserving their land is the main topic of discussion in the article, as they aim to focus on priories of their land and people in the reopening of the tourism industry.
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