Oil spill Beauty and Horror

[TriplexDread]

Incredible picture but very worrying

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/06/beauty-and-horror-found-in-this-oil-spill-pic/

 

[Taffycat]

That photo looks just like a piece of amber... it's hard to imagine the full extent of the devastation it is causing.

Here is another LINKY received from a friend recently. Just type in your location (such as London, UK) and click to "move" the spill. It really puts the size of the spill into perspective.

 

[captain zed]

Wow!!! It's bigger than Ireland..........i'm not sure if this spill can be stopped before it does really major damage.
Stupid BP

 

[historian]

I know that this spill is dreadful.But the oil comming out is a natural product so it`s biodegradable over time. A few years ago an oil tanker hit the coast in Alaska.Thousands of tons of oil went ashore and the envromentalist went mad. But now,it seems, that the coast line has recovered with very little damage seen. So given time nature works wonders.

historian

 

[muckshifter]

nature does indeed work wonders, but why should it have to work unpaid overtime because of man's stupidity.

 

[floppybootstomp]

nature does indeed work wonders, but why should it have to work unpaid overtime because of man's stupidity.

Quite so

'It'll all wash down in the rain' is no answer.

And this from somebody who's far from sympathetic to Green concerns.

 

[historian]

No I don`t think a shower of rain will clean it up.

But let me ask a question.
Suppose this happened,not by man,during a seismic event like tectonic plates shifting, ripping open the bed of the ocean and all this oil came rushing out under pressure,how would we cope then? There would be far more oil gushing out. It must have happened in the distant past during volcanic activity,long before man knew of oil. But over time nature broke it down and recycled it.
historian

 

[floppybootstomp]

But let me ask a question.
Suppose this happened,not by man,during a seismic event like tectonic plates shifting, ripping open the bed of the ocean and all this oil came rushing out under pressure,how would we cope then? There would be far more oil gushing out. It must have happened in the distant past during volcanic activity,long before man knew of oil. But over time nature broke it down and recycled it.
historian

That scenario hasn't happened in recorded history as far as I'm aware of but if it did, that's acceptable as mother nature caused it and it would stand along all other disasters such as tsunami's, volcanoes, hurricanes and earthquakes.

The point here is that mankind, that pointless little parasite scurrying all over the planet's surface, made this disaster causing damage, death and misery when it could have been avoided. That oil spill was caused by mankind's incompetence, the scenario you put forward would be a natural disaster, there's a difference.

 

[captain zed]

It will be interesting to see what the next 20-30 years bring. If we have that long, lol.