Reminder of Fossil Fuels' Problems

摘要

The amount of crude oil leaking from the underwater well where the Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling until it exploded last April taking 11 lives is indeterminatern- each week brings a new estimatern- but it seems clear that every few days an amount equivalent to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill leaks from the sea floor, oozes up toward the surface and spreads out, threatening ocean life and shore ecosystems. Observers are already calling the leak the worst environmental disaster in American history, jeopardizing as it does one of the world's great fisheries. It seems clear that the problem is not only more severe than the spill in Prince William Sound twenty years ago but already worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.