Environmental "Pollution"

[Ufasuperstorm]

What environmentalist refers to as “polluting the environment” has been ongoing since the inception of earth.

Let's look at petroleum seepage.

Take natural seepage for example near Coal Point California:

in the study area, equivalent to 8−80 spills of the Exxon Valdez accident of 1989

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es802586g


Natural petroleum seepage estimates in localized regions:

There are four regions offshore North America with known seeps. Two of these, the Gulf of Mexico and southern California, have a combined annual oil seep rate of 160,000 tonnes, derived by adding 140,000 tonnes, estimated from the Gulf of Mexico, and the estimate of 20,000 tonnes from Southern California. Seeps are also known to be present along the northern and southern coastlines of Alaska (Fig. 2-13) and at the coastline of Baffin Island, Canada.

Just in the above regions that is 50,841,530.054707594 gallons annually. (Try and imagine worldwide how much naturally seeps)

www.nap.edu/read/10388/chapter/9#192

Many microbes degrade the naturally seeping petroleum.

Additionally, drilling relieves reservoir pressure and decreases the amount of natural petroleum seepage.

When looking at ocean "pollution". There are also microbes that degrade it.

www.nature.com/news/2011/110328/full/news.2011.191.html

science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1154

www.livescience.com/37808-microbes-make-homes-in-ocean-garbage.html

More "pollution" results in more microbes that degrade it.

[nautonnier]

The wailing and gnashing of teeth by environmentalists over oil spills does seem to be somewhat less than logical on occasions. They claimed that the spills in the Gulf of Mexico were going to cause problems along the entire track of the Gulf Stream. This was not the case and the proponents of the panic have gone quiet. This is because like the tar pits at La Brea,oil has seeped from the surface for millennia both as tar pits and as undersea seeps and bacteria have evolved that consider oil, tar and pitch as food. A spill causes a bloom of these bacteria.

Not only that but the weather plays a significant part too. An oil spill from a tanker that ran aground on the Shetlands caused wails from conservationists that it was going to kill thousands of sea birds. But the spilled oil was undetectable after a 3 day gale.

The same applies for forest fires, the best approach to these fires is to let them burn and burn out. The woodland then becomes a patchwork of old and new growth. The old growth burns and the new growth less so. Areas that full of old brush burn away leaving clearings where new growth can start. Insects have evolved that fly to burned trees to lay their eggs as this was the way the world worked. 'Conservationists' insisting on stopping brush fires are actually storing up trouble.

All of these cases are failures to understand nature based on the hubris that only 'man' can manage nature. As if nature cannot manage perfectly well without interference from 'environmentalists' thinking they are doing good who actually do not understand the way that the natural systems operate.