Humans have a tendency to make mistakes. It's in our nature and that's okay- we are all human after all. It just becomes a problem when we keep making the same mistake over and over again.
Habitat destruction hurts the environment, the creatures that live there, and us. Humans keep clearing out places like forests, lakes, swamps, and more to make room for us. Clearing the natural habitat makes way for residential homes, roads, pipelines, and more. We keep doing the same mistake over and over again because we think it will better our country and our communities, but in reality it doesn't. Stuff like tearing down trees actually make it worse for us because the trees make oxygen for us. With a lack of trees, there will be less oxygen and I'm pretty sure I like to breath. We harvest too much as well. The same idea of the trees applies to this because we tear them down to create timber, wood, and paper.
Though the public generates more attention towards habitat destruction on land, there is plenty of destruction going on in the waters. We drill the bottom of the oceans for oil (offshore drilling). Drilling in the waters can cause some serious damage to the creatures in the waters, creatures like fish which is what we eat. Probably one of the most famous and biggest oil spills we had was the BP Oil Spill (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill) in 2010. The spill happened after the oil rig exploded and sank in the ocean. Beaches were covered in thick oil and animals were either dead or barley holding on because of all the oil they caught. The health impact on volunteers and workers who helped contain the oil and helped cleaned up was also bad. Some of workers were exposed to chemicals toxic to our bodies and had to go to the hospital.
All in all, habitat destruction is bad. It causes way too many problems for something we use in the short run. We don't need to destroy so much to get so little. As Americans, we should find a different and more innovated way of achieving a goal.
Habitat destruction hurts the environment, the creatures that live there, and us. Humans keep clearing out places like forests, lakes, swamps, and more to make room for us. Clearing the natural habitat makes way for residential homes, roads, pipelines, and more. We keep doing the same mistake over and over again because we think it will better our country and our communities, but in reality it doesn't. Stuff like tearing down trees actually make it worse for us because the trees make oxygen for us. With a lack of trees, there will be less oxygen and I'm pretty sure I like to breath. We harvest too much as well. The same idea of the trees applies to this because we tear them down to create timber, wood, and paper.
Though the public generates more attention towards habitat destruction on land, there is plenty of destruction going on in the waters. We drill the bottom of the oceans for oil (offshore drilling). Drilling in the waters can cause some serious damage to the creatures in the waters, creatures like fish which is what we eat. Probably one of the most famous and biggest oil spills we had was the BP Oil Spill (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill) in 2010. The spill happened after the oil rig exploded and sank in the ocean. Beaches were covered in thick oil and animals were either dead or barley holding on because of all the oil they caught. The health impact on volunteers and workers who helped contain the oil and helped cleaned up was also bad. Some of workers were exposed to chemicals toxic to our bodies and had to go to the hospital.
All in all, habitat destruction is bad. It causes way too many problems for something we use in the short run. We don't need to destroy so much to get so little. As Americans, we should find a different and more innovated way of achieving a goal.
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