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These blog posts with the 'header' titles, "My Point Of View On," Parts 1 - 26, are originally from my "Paul Whiting — Math Magician" blog, which is my blog with the fewest posts. So, I decided to not group posts in this series with similar topics from that blog (unlike the blog post series with similar topics from my other blogs, which I republished on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog), because I wanted this series of posts in their chronological order, representing the way they were originally published.
My Point Of View On...
Petroleum Products
My Point Of View No. 1: Most of the petroleum in the world should be left in the ground, where it belongs.
My Point Of View No. 2: Yet, at the same time, processing a sustainable amount of petroleum into "ecologically-friendly" products (using sound scientific methods that prevent the toxicity of extracting, transporting and refining crude oil) is beneficial, since the crude oil will never seep out if the ground, due to building up too much pressure, since it has been extracted and refined.
My Point Of View No. 3: However, the processing of crude oil into petroleum products should be totally sustainable—as well as not harmful to the environment, such as the oceans—and should not exacerbate global warming in any way.
My Point Of View No. 4: Plus, fracking is a horrible idea and we should not be "fracking" doing it!
My Point Of View No. 5: Besides that, creating plastics from petroleum is having an enormously negative impact on the environment, most particularly on bodies of water, such as lakes and oceans, along with plants, as well as animals, which includes humans.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"
My Writing About "Ecologically-Friendly" Petroleum Extraction And Refinement Without Exacerbating Global Warming: Most of the petroleum in the world should be left in the ground, where it belongs. Yet, at the same time, processing a sustainable amount of petroleum into "ecologically-friendly" products (using sound scientific methods that prevent the toxicity of extracting, transporting and refining crude oil) is beneficial, since the crude oil will never seep out if the ground, due to building up too much pressure, since it has been extracted and refined. However, the processing of crude oil into petroleum products should be totally sustainable—as well as not harmful to the environment, such as the oceans—and should not exacerbate global warming in any way. Plus, fracking is a horrible idea and we should not be "fracking" doing it! Besides that, creating plastics from petroleum is having an enormously negative impact on the environment, most particularly on bodies of water, such as lakes and oceans, along with plants, as well as animals, which includes humans. –Paul Whiting (written approximately on April 17th, 2016, then turned into 'my writing' on July 31st, 2022, revised April 23rd, 2023 and revised June 26th, 2024)
My Writing Notes:
The reason that I wrote this prose can be summed up with the following statement: "Processing a sustainable amount of petroleum into 'ecologically-friendly' products (using sound scientific methods that prevent the toxicity of extracting, transporting and refining crude oil) is beneficial, since the crude oil will never seep out if the ground, due to building up too much pressure, since it has been extracted and refined."
And this prose was also published on my "Paul Whiting — Math Magician" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this prose applies to the message I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — Math Magician."
This prose was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingmath.blogspot.com
April 22nd, 2023 Update—Continued Further (Originally From My Blog Post Titled, "I Am No Longer Being An Activist In The Same Way That I Was," Which Is On My "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Blog): Happy Earth Day, everyone! I saved a video titled, "The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour Documentary" on my YouTube 'Watch Later' Playlist that I watched today, April 22nd, 2023, which is a testament to the perils that the world faces from plastics! Here is the description from that video with a hyperlink below:
The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour
Documentary
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
In “The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the problem to light.
https://youtu.be/1RDc2opwg0I
And after I watched the video—which I had specifically saved on my YouTube 'Watch Later' Playlist to watch on Earth Day—I decided to write this 'update' as part of my Earth Day 'updates,' so that I could encourage you, my readers, to consider watching the video too! –Paul Whiting (April 22nd, 2023)
This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 305 was edited on June 26th, 2024.
"Prose is using all of the words that are necessary in order to describe all that is necessary to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
