Gulf Oil Spill Affect Humanity

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What if people were fish and someone put oil in our homes? When the oil went into the water, all the fish and other sea creature’s home were ruined. Does the Gulf oil spill affect humanity? Is the Gulf oil spill harmful to the water that we drink today? The Gulf coast, marine life, and human communities were all affected by the oil spill. To people who experienced the oil spill, they know that it is one of the most tragic oil spills in the history of the United States. There were cameras underwater that revealed that there was a pipe that leaked oil on the ocean floor just about 42 miles off of the coast of Louisiana, because of this, eleven people were killed. Not only were people killed, seventeen others were badly injured. The estimate

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