The Science Behind It

Oil is a very important resource and it can be found all throughout different areas. Crude oil also known as petroleum is a dense mixture of hydrocarbons and other organic compounds, it has many uses in the world and most of them are energy related it can be used to make gasoline and other oil by products. There is not specific component of crude oil that is detrimental to the earth it’s the way it pollutes the water which to humans unless it’s released into lakes or fresh water sources is not of great importance but to the animals living in this marine environment, the oil spills ravage their ecosystems.
The reason why oil spills are dangerous is not only because it pollutes water sources, but the worst effect is on animal. When Oil is spilled it mushrooms into a black cloud that can sometimes even be seen from space depending on the magnitude of the spill, in that mushroom will not just be water but an entire life system of animals and plants. Birds are affected because when they land on water or try to find fish to eat, they plane over the water and land in oil without realizing it, now this is bad because the oil is so dense it prevents them from flying so in an attempt to rid themselves of the oil they will ingest it and in doing so they ruin their internal organs and if they go untreated they will die. Oil affects many other animal and plants but it can also cause air pollution, because when trying to recover and oil spill a widely used option is to simply burn it , the burning of oil produces a very damaging amount of carbon and adds to the already fragile ozone layer.