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Argument Essay

Mandy
EAP2
April 18, 2005
Argument Essay
Oil Pollution in Russia

After I read some articles about oil pollution in Russia, I recognize oil spill is a big problem in Russia, especially in the Baltic. Every year, oil can be found at the beach. Oil spill influence water quality around the sea area in Russia. According to Bray (2004), Russia has many maritime transport of oil. Every day they transport oil to many places. For example, tankers export oil to many places every day. The problem is this kind of ship such as a tanker taint the water supply and could damage those who drink water in Russia. Maybe the tanker is too old and has a leak and some oil spill. Another way is if the tanker hits a rock and gets a hole. Bray said "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3). A huge number of migratory birds died because of oil spill in the Baltic. According to a resident Anatoliy Kramskoy who has been living on the Baltic coast for 30 years. Kranskoy said "This is the first time I have come across such an event."(Naumov, 2005, para.3).

The oil pollution not only kills birds but also hurts marine life. Moreover, this pollution pollutes the water supply for Russia. For solving the problem of this oil pollution, I think there are three possible solutions. First, Russian government should make some laws and for solving this oil pollution strictly enforce them. For this situation, first of all, I think the government should have more environmental knowledge. They have to think about more that oil pollution can influence not only environment and animals, but also themselves. If they know this crisis is bad for their future, they will do something to solve this problem and not just take care about their economic. And then the government will regulate the amount of oil that tankers are allowing to transport or the amount of tanker they allow to transport. For example, they can build a building by the side of the sea to control the amount of oil and tanker. Next, increase the fines for person or company who dump oil to sea is also a good idea. In addition, they also can punish the tanker which over the amount of oil. If the government uses this way, they can both solve the oil pollution problems and earn money. Finally, use this money to improve maritime transport systems. The government can increase budgets for maritime transport company to buy a new tanker or fix their old tankers. It will improve the oil spill problem during they transport oil to another country. According to Bray, he said "with the current demand for Russian oil, and the obvious need for increased maritime transport systems" (para.3).

Second, not only the government should have to know more environment knowledge, the people of Russia also should have more knowledge about the problem of oil pollution. The Russia residents should be more education about environment knowledge. They can have an ecological class in their primary, second, and high school for teaches their children to know more about environment. They also can make a TV commercial to inform the public about oil pollution. Another way is build a billboard to advertise about oil pollution. These two ways can tell their residents more about oil pollution, environment knowledge and how oil pollution influences their lives.

Third, Russia should find ways of protecting migratory birds. After people know more about oil pollution problem, maybe some people want to have a responsibility to protect migratory birds. Then they will make an organization that gets money to clean the environment or to help sick animals. This is also helping the government to solve oil pollution problem. Moreover, maybe some people want to make a more strong organization that protests against people who will hurt the animals. Maybe this kind of organization will have a parade to protest people who make oil pollution that cause animals died.

In conclusion, Russian government didn’t have any action to solve this problem. The reason is Russia is a developing country. They think economy is more important than the environment in this day. It costs a lot of money to clean oil spills, and the Russian government would prefer to spend their money to advance their economy. However, the government is supposed to protect their residents and animals. First, birds are died by oil pollution then later this will happened in human being. If Russian government did not notice this is a crisis, later in the future, they just have to pay more expenses such as a lot of people get strange disease or died suddenly and more and more money to recover the environment like developed countries. Therefore, that is why we need to find solutions to solve this problem.

Reference:
Naumov, A. (Feb. 16, 2005). Russia looks to Baltic neighbors over oil spill. BBC News. Retrieved 3/31/05, from Lexis Nexis.
Bray, J. (2004, Oct. 7). Russia oil export boom poses new concern for European safety: This year the focus is on challenges and opportunities surrounding the maritime transportation of energy from Russia and central Asia. Lloyd’s List. Retrieved 4/07/05, from Lexis Nexis.

posted by Mandy @ 9:03 AM