Today’s essay question:
Compare and contrast the recent oil spills around the country, and consider recent international crises in the Ukraine, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Are their any threads linking these catastrophes together?
Justify your answer with examples.
More recent spillage:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/25/3418808/oil-leaks-lake-michigan/
Oil played a dominant role in all of these conflicts. So who has heard of conflicts caused by solar panels or wind turbines ? Jury is out on nuclear as I seem to remember Israel bombing Iraq’s and Syria’s effort once.
Iraq
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/
Afghanistan
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/
Ukraine
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/06/ukraine-crisis-great-power-oil-gas-rivals-pipelines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard