Carl Safina : The oil spill's unseen villains — and victims

Carl Safina·TEDxOilSpill

The oil spills unseen villains- and victims

Summary

This was also a sad story as it was the last time and l couldn’t understand a sentence: whenever the speaker looked the ocean, no matter where he was, even where he knew that none of the oil had gone.

It’s not that the story explained just only about the oil accident of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spill occurred in Alaska. Actually, a few months ago, in 2020, an oil spill accident occurred in Mauritius which had a very beautiful ocean. It was announced only a few times.

And then, I've just understood what the title wanted to tell us.

The speaker tells us that animals, fish, and birds are sending us signs that there’s danger in the ocean. However, there’s nobody out there trying to collect spilling oil on the ocean after the accidents and children are in the water.

In fact, oil and water, you know, that doesn’t mix, but after adding dispersants called the booms and a little energy from the wild and waves and mixing, you can’t clean, touch, see, and extract oil. It’s hidden. The evidence is unseen.

About 30 percent of the killer whales died, turtles ate oil, though, their gills would be affected and broken by oil. A dolphin came next to the side of the boat at last, and dolphins haven’t come out yet. It was coming to ask for help. Sea birds and tunas couldn’t have eggs because of a lot of the oily water. They are victims.

This must be the company’s negligence and the government’s oversight. They did nothing. There is no severe rule.

However, if before other energies are used, oil isn’t carried by using ships.

However, other clean energies are expensive.

Who says it’s too expensive?

People who sell us fossil fuels say it.

Are they villains?

Or people who used the dispersants to hide, the company that the account occurred, the government that doesn’t save the ocean...

The speaker said that the cheapest energy was slavery.

Who are their owners? Who uses energy?

The answer is the unseen villain of the title.

P.S. The ending of the speaker’s stories was always sad, though, this is reality. We have to change our actions soon. This time, many people go to Mauritius to clean the ocean. We fill a lot of plastic bags with oil until oil goes. Now is the time, though, we have to regain our clean ocean and change our actions.