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I think we shouldn't drill because oil is a limited supply. If we keep drilling it that it will run out one day.
We should look after the environment. Deep sea oil drilling does creates lots of jobs, profit for the oil drilling company, but there are lots of disadvantages as well.
1. It's limited, that means it will run out one day, then we don't have oil to use. But oil is the thing that we are using everyday, so if it runs out, it is the end of transportation. The trucks that feed our cities would stop, and the cars that transport workers would become useless. This would shut down most businesses and services in the developed world. This includes the army and national guard (modern militaries are nearly useless without trucks to carry troops, ammo, medical supplies and others). And electricity would stop in most locations as well.
“If you believe the economy is structured in such a way that it needs to grow continually in order to survive, then it will take an endless supply of energy to feed it,” Gary Mason said.
Think of our economy as a computer running calculations, that the economic output is the number of calculations it completes. So if the computer runs on a finite resource and that, at current rates of consumption, you’ll run out of the resource to run your computer in 30 years. the computer technology improves such that its calculating efficiency increases each year.
If technology does not improve, your choice will be simple: reduce the amount you run your computer to smooth resources over time, or use them up and then just starve.
As time goes on, your annual resource use would get closer and closer to zero, so while your resource is still finite, you can use it for a time period that limits to infinity as long as your rate of productivity improvement is sufficient.
2. The drilling ship may causes a fire or overturn. So it is dangerous for the people that are doing this job. Even they want to get the money, they should still care about their lives.
3. Drilling in deep water is dangerous, because a spill could devastate the environment.
The Gulf of Mexico, which covers about 1 554 000 km2, is the world's ninth-largest body of water and has been called the "Mediterranean of the Americas." On 20 April 2010, a huge fire engulfed a Deepwater Horizon petroleum-drilling rig that had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 platform workers and injuring 7 others. After burning for hours, the rig sank on 22 April, resulting in the spread of a large oil slick from the location of the former rig.
And New Zealand doesn’t have the equipment or the money to clean up such a disaster.
We live on the earth, so everyone should protect the environment. Otherwise we will not have enough oil. So we shouldn't drill. Therefore, we need to keep looking for new supplies of oil, or find a replacement.
We should look after the environment. Deep sea oil drilling does creates lots of jobs, profit for the oil drilling company, but there are lots of disadvantages as well.
1. It's limited, that means it will run out one day, then we don't have oil to use. But oil is the thing that we are using everyday, so if it runs out, it is the end of transportation. The trucks that feed our cities would stop, and the cars that transport workers would become useless. This would shut down most businesses and services in the developed world. This includes the army and national guard (modern militaries are nearly useless without trucks to carry troops, ammo, medical supplies and others). And electricity would stop in most locations as well.
“If you believe the economy is structured in such a way that it needs to grow continually in order to survive, then it will take an endless supply of energy to feed it,” Gary Mason said.
Think of our economy as a computer running calculations, that the economic output is the number of calculations it completes. So if the computer runs on a finite resource and that, at current rates of consumption, you’ll run out of the resource to run your computer in 30 years. the computer technology improves such that its calculating efficiency increases each year.
If technology does not improve, your choice will be simple: reduce the amount you run your computer to smooth resources over time, or use them up and then just starve.
As time goes on, your annual resource use would get closer and closer to zero, so while your resource is still finite, you can use it for a time period that limits to infinity as long as your rate of productivity improvement is sufficient.
2. The drilling ship may causes a fire or overturn. So it is dangerous for the people that are doing this job. Even they want to get the money, they should still care about their lives.
3. Drilling in deep water is dangerous, because a spill could devastate the environment.
The Gulf of Mexico, which covers about 1 554 000 km2, is the world's ninth-largest body of water and has been called the "Mediterranean of the Americas." On 20 April 2010, a huge fire engulfed a Deepwater Horizon petroleum-drilling rig that had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 platform workers and injuring 7 others. After burning for hours, the rig sank on 22 April, resulting in the spread of a large oil slick from the location of the former rig.
And New Zealand doesn’t have the equipment or the money to clean up such a disaster.
We live on the earth, so everyone should protect the environment. Otherwise we will not have enough oil. So we shouldn't drill. Therefore, we need to keep looking for new supplies of oil, or find a replacement.