I haven't been following the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis very carefully, but I've read enough (see: 'very little') to know that this is turning out to be a serious tragedy. Over twenty years ago, we experienced a similar environmental disaster. In 1989, 11 million gallons of oil spilled into Alaskan waters and killed thousands of animals, in the worst oil spill the country had ever seen. This spill has almost definitely already surpassed that one in amounts of oil; best estimates were at 30 million gallons as of May 27, and that was a week ago. Species are likely to go extinct because of our carelessness. We're destroying our planet. You'd think we'd have learned after twenty years, but it's obvious we haven't. We're madly in love with our oil, and we'll go through any means to obtain it, even turning a blind eye to meth-use/porn-watching on government computers/cronyism amongst government overseers and BP staffpeople. This is absurd. We can't do this anymore. None of us are innocent. I don't know what we can do to fix it, but we need to right now before we kill ourselves and everything else off.
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“All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -- is
like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” -Albert Einstein
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--Jon
p.s., the title of this blog is a reference to the movie of the same name.
[edit (6/12/10): I find it funny that people are most worried about the oil hitting the coast, as if there is just empty water between the coast and the rig. THE MARINE HABITATS are what we should be worried about, not our precious goddamn coasts.]
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