Fracking In Margaret Fuller's Summer On The Gulf Of Mexico

The controversial methods and actions of oil companies to extract/transport their products, such as fracking, have to be banned and prevented immediately and companies must find more efficient and environmentally-friendly ways to extract/transport these natural resources in order to keep the environment safe.
With methods such as fracking being used to excavate the oil that is used today, damage done to the environment and different species of animals is inevitable with controversial methods. As an example of damage done to the environment, a very impactful incident which affected the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. The Deepwater Horizon was an oil rig which exploded and caused massive damage among the surrounding
In Margaret Fuller’s novel Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, Fuller states, “To a girl really skilled to make home beautiful and comfortable, with bodily strength to enjoy plenty of exercise, the woods, the streams, a few studies, music and the sincere and familiar intercourse, far more easily to be met here than elsewhere, would afford happiness enough.”(Fuller, 461) Fuller believes that living in harmony with nature will cause people, especially women since Fuller supports women’s rights, to gain happiness and become independent from the lifestyle of urban cities. Fuller is correct in her assertion. Yet, with the continued actions/methods of these oil companies, if incidents continue to occur, then eventually there will be less and less nature for which humans will be able to enjoy. Even though there are national parks which protect sections of land, the amount of protected land continue to be very insignificant compared to the amount of unprotected land. With the loss of a majority of nature, the human population would struggle even more to sustain itself and provide for the already large population inhabiting the planet.