Did you know that 76% of climate change is caused by fossil fuels??? Do you want our plant to turn into a catastrophic disaster, do you want your kids or grandkids go have to wear oxygen masks outside because they can’t breathe the toxic air?
Hi were Sceat and today I will be talking to you about why fossil fuels are bad.
360 million years ago our planet was covered in forested, for the next 100 million years dead animals and plants collected at the bottom of lakes, oceans and Forrest floors. Billions of tones of this dead organic material were trapped bellow layers of, dirt and rock, crushing them into what we now know as fossil fuels turning into three different substances depending on the combination of organic matter, temperature, time and pressure, turning into oil, coal and natural gas. Coal was formed from plants and trees that hardened due to pressure and heat. Oil was formed from small organisms like plankton, fish and alge and natural gas was made the same way but was exposed to more heat and pressure causing it to decompose even more and turn into gas. Theses are all fossil fuels. The reason we mine for fossil fuels is for energy, we burn oil and gas as fuel
in cars, planes or any kind of transport. We also burn coal and gas to make electricity (another form of energy) The big problem with burning fossil fuels is when we burn it, it produces carbon dioxide that has been trapped in the fuel for millions of years which makes the blanket of carbon dioxide around our planet even thicker. The thicker the blanket the harder it is for the heat energy that warms the planet to get back out, causing our planet to get hotter and hotter destroying our planet.
The part I don’t understand is, algae why drill when there are so many other ways to get energy? Why, dig up the planet, release 35 billion tones of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere every year and leak millions of litres of oil into the ocean. Instead, we can use solar energy absorbing all this energy without completely destroying our planet. It only takes a dozen soar panels to power an average family house. But why only 0.7 percent of electricity comes from solar panels. Another renewable energy industry is wind turbines, these powerful machines generate enough energy to power 1,500 average family households per year. And we now have the technology to use electric cars. Why are people still buying and supporting the fossil fuel industry, destroying our planet?
Not only do we release 35 billion tones on carbon dioxide into our atmosphere by burning coal, gas and oil but we also have to dig up kilometres and kilometres of land… destroying our plant. The proses of drilling starts by clearing the land, they then deliver 20-30 truckloads of excipient to drill. Then an enormous 1,000 feet hole is drilled. Then water is pumped in at high pressure cracking the rock that the fossil fuels have been trapped under, for billions of years. Than all the oil and natural gasses are released out of the ground. Once the fossil fuels are out of the ground they get transported of ether to make electricity or to become fuel for cars and other transport. This is the part where we release all the carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. My point here is that it is not just releasing carbon dioxide into our atmosphere that is bad but we also need to physically dig up the plant.
In April 2010 on the coast of Mexico, there was one of many horrible oil spills, this particular oil spill spilt 779 billion letters of oil into the ocean, 11 workers were killed, 2,100km of ocean covered in oil, 800,000 birds killed, 65,000 turtles died along with hundreds of thousands of other marine life, the company had to pay $65 billion to people affected by the spill.
In conclusion, why are we still drilling for oil knowing that we are releasing trillions of tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere? Digging up thousands of acres of land, spilling billions of letters of oil into the ocean, killing billions and billions of animals, destroying our planet.
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