The 15 Biggest Threats To Humanity Exposed

10. British Petroleum

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Though many other oil and gas companies have committed their fair share of crimes against humanity, British Petroleum stands apart – not just for its negligence or contamination of the environment – but for its efforts to intentionally make the disasters it has caused even worse. Of course, the most famous BP oil spill – the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico – took place in 2010. This disaster, considered the largest and most devastating oil spill in human history, dumped more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Even though the spill happened over 7 years ago, it is still washing up along the Gulf Coast’s shores and helped create a permanent hypoxic “dead zone” near the spill’s epicenter. The Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem and human economic activity based around it has been devastated and may never recover.
Yet, even worse than BP’s devastating oil spill – legally recognized to have been caused by the company’s “negligence” – has been its “clean-up” efforts. Instead of trying to remove the oil from the environment, despite the fact that such technology existed at the time, BP chose to use an oil dispersant that hides the oil from view but doesn’t actually do anything to clean the environment. Worse still, the oil dispersant used – known as Corexit – is actually highly toxic and has been killing marine life in massive quantities. BP used over 7 million liters of Corexit despite scientists’ warnings.

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