Earth Day was established in response to pollution by a liquid fossil fuel — a “well blowout” forty -five years ago at a new Union Oil drilling platform in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California. Television coverage of the rapidly spreading oil slick and especially of oil coated sea birds provided vivid images that caught public attention. As more fully described in Earth Day 1970, pollution and population were considered the major environmental threats on early Earth Days. Climate change has since become the over-riding environmental threat, and our greatest threat, but it also must be remembered that the largest marine oil spill occurred 40 years after the Santa Barbara spill when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading
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