For many years multiple organizations have fought to
preserve our planet from the effects of climate change. Some policies have been
implemented to help reduce greenhouse emissions but through inadequate U.S.
climate policy and non-believers it has been a slow process. The new bill
introduced by House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee seems to
really be taking climate more seriously. It is mostly aimed at helping to
protect our Ocean waters by using ocean and coastal resources to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. This will also help the coastal community to learn to adapt to
the current climate change that is causing these impacts.
The “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act” is the first bill of
its kind that takes the ocean into account to help with climate change. This
bill will grant permission to halt new offshore oil drilling as well as to
promote offshore wind and other ways to protect coastal ecosystems for carbon
sequestration. By doing this, it will give aid to improving wildlife habitats
as well as coastal storm protection. Many environmental organizations have long
ignored fighting big-time oil companies that harm the ocean and caused so much
of the world’s pollution. This is quite the wake-up call for all those in the
climate community to start looking for different ways to help reduce greenhouse
emissions but most importantly to take the vital water source more seriously.
It is amazing that the ocean has been ignored for so long since it is an important economic resource that is worth $373 billion, with 127 million
Americans that inhabit the coastal counties. Yet the communities are bound by
culture and survival they choose to ignore the ocean waters increasing rise,
warmth, and acidification.
Although this newly
presented bill seems promising it lacks the inability to remove organizations
that are currently causing our oceans to become acidic, warmer, and rising. In
order to combat climate change more needs to be done than just stopping new oil
drilling in our oceans. There have to be policies implemented that will protect
our oceans from being damaged through oil rig spills and further greenhouse
emissions. Although the promotion of offshore wind sounds like a cleaner
solution it's forgetting that the waste from these offshore winds will be greater
and a plan to maintain the waste also needs to be implemented. If we were to
introduce more offshore wind, there must be a way to find a cost-efficient way
to produce them in order to prevent further waste that will later become an
even bigger problem.
From an environmental point of view, people seem to support
the ocean bill, yet they probably don't understand that clean energy doesn't
mean no waste disposal but a small solution that still promotes business as
planned product and productions. In addition, a significant amount of turbine
blades will eventually be disposed of into the water causing a whole other
problem in the near future. These newly acquired Ocean policies will only come
into law if the people see to elect leaders that will systemize environmental
economics over their personal interest in fossil fuel.
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