Oh my God… This is heart-breaking.
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Quote of the day.
“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.”
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This… breaks my heart beyond words.
We have done this. I am responsible for the spill that is in the Gulf, a spill that has in many ways passed the point of any return. The marshlands have been breached by oil after a month of feet-dragging from BP, and as Louisiana’s officials have stated, you can’t clean the marshlands: you either protect them, or you loose them forever. To be clear, there is no fixing the damage that could claim hundreds of miles of marshlands.
I’ve been reading a lot on the history of the top 15 oil spills in the world - the Gulf War spill, the Ixtoc oil well, the Amoco Cadiz, the Valdez - in all cases, the long term damage is mind-numbingly staggering. In the case of the Valdez alone, less than 10% of the spill was ever recovered. And that was a surface spill, now we are watching the equivalent of one Valdez spill every four days a mile under the ocean.
Any why is this my fault? Why when I look through the photographs and satellite images do I feel responsible? Because I’ve never called or written to voice my concern over offshore drilling, or deep water drilling, or oversight lags that generally go unreported until something like this happens. An in my inaction, I’ve always known that big oil spends countless hours and energy lobbying our representatives. Pushing them. Financing their careers. And now I’m supposed to feel surprise when our government has granted a private and international corporation the rights to oil, that we Americans own, in an area of the ocean so deep that it exceeds our ability to even mitigate a possible disaster? What did I think was going to happen?
This spill will never be cleaned in my lifetime, and we should all as consumers let that sink in for a moment. The Gulf will remain toxic and damaged for next 30 to 50 years and for what? Worst of all, we will probably never be asked to pay the full and hidden price of this spill.
BP’s response has been disgusting and criminal - as all oil companies act when they’ve done irreparable damage to public commons. And by now, we should know better than to wait till it’s too late.