Since the environmental protection organization had grown, it should continue to promote the concept of environmental protection. Otherwise, in the eyes of the members, the organization would become something that only collected money but did not do anything serious.
Therefore, compared to 2005, there were hundreds of times more protests and environmental actions that advocated the end of the greenhouse effect. A large number of people participated, and many inspirational candidates took up the banner of environmental protection. After all, it could attract fans.
Therefore, the people in the automobile industry found that the firewall they built between the media and the government was beginning to collapse.
In July, a sudden major event happened in Europe.
A serious explosion occurred on an offshore oil drilling platform near Greenland, causing a large amount of crude oil to leak.
Because the drilling platform was quite far away from the European continent, it would take a long time for the rescue forces to arrive. By the time they arrived at the drilling platform, more than 50,000 barrels of oil had leaked out, forming a super oil patch with a total area of 1,455 square kilometers on the sea.
Originally, the oil spill had nothing to do with the noble Europeans, and they would not care about what happened on the sea. At most, various environmental protection organizations would condemn it verbally.
But coincidentally, one of the rescue workers took a picture of it.
The photo was taken on a reef island.
The entire reef island was dyed black by the dark oil. The ground was full of muddy oil slurry, and the rescue worker's footprints were more than 10 centimeters deep.
At this time, in the middle of the photo was a seabird.
However, the color of the seabird was unknown, because its whole body had turned black, completely wrapped in oil.
At this moment, this seabird was looking at the ground with a sorrowful expression. This was because below his feet, there were four small seabirds that were similarly pitch-black. They were wrapped into a black ball and collapsed on top of the oil stains.
These four poor little guys were completely dead, and they were all the seabird mother's children. If one looked at the photo carefully, one could see a glimmer of reflection in the eyes of the mother seabird, as if it were tears.
No, it was clearly the mother seabird's tears.
After that, there was a video circulating on the internet. The mother seabird not only looked at her child sadly, but also used her sharp beak to move the child's body. She even held a child's body in her mouth and tried to help him stand up, thinking that her child would be able to come back to life.
At the end of the video, there was a narration saying that the mother had been watching over her children for three days and three nights. During that period, she did not eat or drink. In the end, she passed away with the four birds.
Once upon a time, a picture of a refugee child led to the greening of the whole of Europe.
And when the children were replaced by seabirds, the lethality seemed to be even greater and crazier. This photo and video began to spread crazily through the Internet. At first, it was in the QQ group, then it was on the websites of various news media. In the end, one could find this sad story on any search engine.
For a moment, the feelings of all the people were stirred up, their grief broke out, and all of them felt great sympathy and sorrow, as well as deep anger.
What was it that caused a diligent mother to have to watch her children die in front of her eyes? Such a great sorrow was simply the biggest tragedy in the world.
Countless people were angry, so they all needed to find the culprit to vent their anger.
Soon, the culprit was found. It was the car.
An environmental protection organization published an article called "We Killed Them." The article said that the mother seabird's family was killed by human beings. It was because of human beings' endless greed for material things, especially for cars.
The explanation of the article was very straightforward and simple. The reason why the seabird's family died was that they were contaminated by oil and poisoned to death.
The reason why oil appeared on the surface of the sea instead of staying in the depths of the ocean was that it was extracted by human beings.
The reason why human beings needed oil was that there were a large number of cars around the world, and they consumed a huge amount of oil every year. As long as these oil-fueled cars were still around, the same kind of tragedy would never stop. Every year, tens of millions of seabird mothers and their children would die together!
At the end of the article, the solution to the problem was to vigorously promote electric cars, and then vigorously develop sustainable clean energy such as wind energy, solar energy, water energy, and so on. All the problems could be solved once and for all.
Look at how well written the article was. It was so simple and easy to understand. It also proposed a solution to the problem, so the people found the most suitable place to vent their anger.
When the relevant countries saw this article, they clapped their hands and applauded, because this article from the beginning to the end said that the car was responsible for the accident, and it was the responsibility of the energy developers. It had nothing to do with their government at all.
Although the direct cause of the oil spill was that the drilling platform's equipment was seriously old, the staff's insufficient training, and the platform's fire-fighting equipment were all damaged, no one discovered it, and so on.
This crisis definitely had nothing to do with the reasons mentioned above, and the government was absolutely not at fault. This was all the fault of the car, and it had nothing to do with the government.
Therefore, the governments of various countries were very supportive of this article, and they even directly used their official power to push the blame. In the end, the governments of these countries did indeed survive the crisis, but the car manufacturers, especially the European car manufacturers, were having a hard time.
Countless protests against them emerged, and the entrance of every car manufacturer was surrounded by thousands of protesters almost every day. Finally, in France, Ying State, Germany, and other countries, there were large-scale protests with millions of people, demanding to stop the sale of oil-fueled cars, stop the consumption of oil, stop the greenhouse effect of car exhaust, and all the use of electric cars.
Therefore, half a month after the incident broke out, most of the European countries announced related plans to support the electric car industry, and at the same time, took out a certain timetable, and almost all of them demanded to stop the sale of oil-fueled cars before 2020, so that the whole world would be in a clean energy world. This barely appeased the anger in the hearts of the people.
Then, the car manufacturers were dumbfounded. Why can't they sell their cars after 2020?
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