Back in 90s it was always happening and you would see oil spilage at sea for miles on the news.
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Observation bias mostly. Oil spills are boring and take too long so news stations don’t cover it for long unless it has strong political interest. People don’t care that they’re terrible ecological disasters that devistate wildlife and take a lot of money and several months to clean up. They care about the sad pictures of birds getting caught in oil that they repost on Instagram with the caption “so sad 🙁 🙁 :(” and that’s it.
In reality they happen all the time. From recent events like the South Califonian underwater pipeline leak in 2021 to the BP Deepwater Horizon that began in 2010, we just can’t seem to keep that black stuff contained.
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