We love Ryan Reynolds in “Green Lantern”. He is amazingly apt to play the role of a superhero who, while trying to live his own life, is considerate and compassionate enough to make the “wrong”, “right” again through will power. Well, it’s not just in the movies that he’s doing good to humanity. In April 2010, when Ryan Reynolds was filming "Green Lantern" in Louisiana, the BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig burst into flames and the Macondo well began spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of gallons going into waste per second.Reynolds was considerate enough to immediately speak out about the need to clean up the region's coast and protect its community. Now, on the one-year anniversary of the spill, he still seems to be in full character. The actor is urging the world to remember what happened and learn something from the events. He wrote the following for Life Magazine;
"I fell in love with Louisiana because of the spirit of the people; their love of culture, music, art, and tradition," the actor explains. "My first reaction when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded was shock about the 11 people who lost their lives, combined with sympathy for their families. Those feelings quickly turned to anger at BP and the other companies that allowed this to happen."
Evidently upset and rather angry about such a tragedy, Reynolds goes on to point out that BP has yet to compensate thousands of victims who lost their livelihoods due to the spill, and that the Gulf's fragile ecosystem, which was severely damaged, remains in a state of ruin without any clean-up or help whatsoever. "We need to break our addiction [from oil]," he writes, "and move toward a clean energy economy."
‘Green’ is the colour of ‘will’. Perfectly stated in this context
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