|
Gramcrackered
|
 |
« on: May 25, 2010, 08:59:56 AM » |
|
Every night I read the latest news about the oil spill. There's always some new horrific development (BP has no clue what to do! Oil spill rate massively worse than said! Countless miles of wildlife fucked!). Makes me feel sick yet I can't stop reading up on it. To summarize for those not paying attention to it: there was a huge accident at an oil platform and it's now gushing like crazy into the Gulf of Mexico. It's been a month now and all efforts to stop or even slow the rate of spill have been all but ineffective. Day by Day Map of the Extent of the Spill: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/01/us/20100501-oil-spill-tracker.htmlLatest Photos of the Louisiana Shores: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards.'
|
|
|
|
Herzeg Dva
|
|
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2010, 11:03:43 AM » |
|
Oil is evil. Someone should have figured out a viable alternative by now.
Chain Reaction!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Anomonous Guy
|
|
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2010, 12:14:13 PM » |
|
All that money wasted  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Trouble
|
|
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2010, 12:23:33 PM » |
|
How did I not know this had happened? Thats horrible.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Gramcrackered
|
|
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2010, 04:35:37 PM » |
|
It's the worst oil spill in American (so far only American, but give it time) history. The long-term effects, if it was stopped right now, would be hideous blows to the fishing and tourism industries. Since it's not going to be shut-off anytime soon, you do the math. Yet there's nearly no media coverage.
Conspiracy theories aside, I did read one good theory that people are just too burnt out to give a damn anymore. Too many nonstop crisis these days in the media.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards.'
|
|
|
|
Halibut
|
|
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2010, 08:06:06 PM » |
|
We knew about it when it started, then when things couldn't stop it but because we've got a new government that tends to take precedent on the news. I'm sure if there is a new development it'll make it here.
It is so sad that there is such a massive spill though, things like this really are humans fault, rather than part of the natural cycle of change.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
DeadMeat
|
|
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2010, 11:01:19 PM » |
|
Corporate greed will kill us all, eventually ...
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Anomonous Guy
|
|
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2010, 01:48:11 PM » |
|
It was on the news this morning on Radio 1.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gramcrackered
|
|
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2010, 01:37:56 AM » |
|
I'm fairly certain this is all merely Stage 1 in Britain's Evil Mastermind Plan to Recover Those Rapscallion Wayward American Colonists.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards.'
|
|
|
|
