Beach memories

 

This week, 126,000 gallons of oil spilled from a broken pipe, creating a 13-square-mile oil slick off the coast of my favorite beaches-- places we loved to go when my kids were small.

Renewable energies like solar, wind and geothermal? They don't do this.

Over. And over, and over.

Of course there is an ecological cost to making any kind of energy, but renewables demand a smaller cost--mostly mining (which of course needs to be done responsibly) and waste, much of which can be recycled, and which enjoys years of use before it needs to be.

You can't recycle oil and gas. Once we mine that, fossil fuel waste ends up spilled into our water or burned into our air, where it hurts our bodies and warms the planet. And we're all using up gallons and gallons of it every single day.

I'll take clean beaches. I just hope they're still around for my grandkids.

So choose renewable whenever possible. And talk to your federal, state, and local representatives about your choices: https://myreps.datamade.us/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/

https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-biggest-oil-spills-in-history 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/07/oc-oil-spill-laguna-beach-homeowners-sue-amplify-energy-corp/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/oil-reaches-laguna-beach-cleanup-154233893.html

https://southocbeaches.com/2021/10/06/laguna-beach-oil-spill-clean-up-wednesday-october-6-2021/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/electric-vehicles-take-off-recycling-ev-batteries

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-lithium-recycled.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel-cars-make-hundreds-of-times-more-waste-than-electric-cars