Santa Barbara -- everybody's mistake

Series: Our Vanishing Wilderness Series

Duration: 0:30:00

Genre: Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Educational Television: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Questions who to blame for the two-million-gallon California off-shore oil leak in 1969, the oil industry or society. Reports that burning oil not only creates smog which endangers animal life, but destroys plant life as high as six-thousand feet above sea level. Criticizes society for allowing oil to be drilled without adequate regulations protecting the environment and the animals which live there. Shows many species of wildlife in their natural habitat, and the cleansing procedure used on them after an oil spill.

Complete Record: , Questions who to blame for the two-million-gallon California off-shore oil leak in 1969, the oil industry or society. Reports that burning oil not only creates smog which endangers animal life, but destroys plant life as high as six-thousand feet above sea level. Criticizes society for allowing oil to be drilled without adequate regulations protecting the environment and the animals which live there. Shows many species of wildlife in their natural habitat, and the cleansing procedure used on them after an oil spill.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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