Not That I Know Anything.
I could almost laugh. I'm just loving these mass texts and statuses being passed around. Everyone feeling cleaver, eager to repost and send them. "If you don't like off-shore drilling, then walk." And they have a right to be angry, when people are putting their livlihoods at risk. But, it's not like BP and it's affiliations wouldn't provide somesort of compensation or alternative if they were really at risk for losing their jobs. Which I'm sure they're not. So I'm sorry those who don't "understand" are standing around trying to ruffle your feathers. I'm sorry. I'm not going to touch your feathers. They are lovely.
So: If you don't like offshore oil then walk!
Oh, but I have a biiiiike.
I mean, it's not our fault. Our whole lives big oil has said: you know, this is really bound to fail but we have this thing called gas. And we could use it, I mean, it's extremely dangerous to our ecosystem, but we could try it out. And all that bit about the ozone, that's probably just made up so this, "GO GREEN" ridiculousness could happen on the grand scale that it is today. (And to think, we used to hate hippies didn't we?) But going green makes companies money too, it's a marketing tool. But back to the point. If they can drill for oil, and it not endanger water (because water is it. I mean, we need it, a lot. It's what creates oxygen pretty much and God kinda decided this is all the water we get, soooo we should try not to to treat it like, I don't know, a litter box), but if they can drill and water is safe and it isn't a powder keg of destruction, then I'm for it.
And I mean, I'm just an 18-year-old, I have a car that I like to drive, I don't have a husband out there off shore risking his life for me and my kids. And I'm not going to stop putting Popeye's cups in parking lots when I run out of cupholders (seriously, where else am I going to put them?!) But you can't always expect there will be someone to clean up the mess you make. And BP dropped a lot of popeye's cups in the gulf.
So, yeah, I guess I'll walk (or BIKE! ), if that's what it takes to make sure I can see the day when the south isn't plummeting into a depression, or the wetlands haven't fallen into oblivion and its animals aren't extinct, and we aren't rationing out SEA FOOD, or WATER.
Every cause has an effect. Every action has a reaction. And it isn't always negative, but this is something that should have been planned, avoided, handled in less than two months. This isn't a science experiment, this is the only world we have. And we're watching the south be the frist thing to go. And so no, I'm just not for that, because I happen to love more than just the crawfish here. And I would hate to see any of it go.
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FACTS ABOUT THIS WHOLE SHINDIG:
1. BP execs were celebrating safety on the Deepwater Horizon at the exact moment it blew up.
In a curious twist, BP chose April 20 as the date for an on board party to commemorate "Deepwater Horizon going for seven years without an accident." A number of company executives reportedly flew out to the rig to take part in the festivities. The natural gas explosion that killed 11 crew members and eventually sank the rig "blew out the wall leading to the galley, where [the] party was being held."
2.Louisiana's traditional "Shrimp and Petroleum Festival" will proceed as planned.
Morgan City, LA, is celebrating the 75th annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, even as gobs of sweet crude are threatening to wipe out the state's seafood business for a generation. "All systems are go," said Lee Delaune, the festival’s director. "We will honor the two industries as we always do. More so probably in grand style, because it's our diamond jubilee."
3.BP thinks there are walruses in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the company's "Regional Oil Spill Response Plan, Gulf of Mexico" — a document that tragically ignores the possibility of an event resembling the current spill — BP lists walruses as one of the "Sensitive Biological Resources" in the Gulf. As most average second-graders know, the blubbery mammals reside exclusively in the Arctic.
4.Certain sea turtles just can't catch a break.
In 1979, endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles were airlifted from Mexico to the Gulf Coast so they wouldn't be wiped out in the huge Ixtoc blowout, the oil disaster that most closely parallels the BP spill. Now, in their transplanted nesting ground, the species could be wiped out by the Deepwater Horizon gusher.
5.With their population at less than 20 percent of what it was four decades ago, bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic need a lot of things to go just right if they are going to survive as a population. Now, just as they are returning to the Gulf of Mexico to spawn, they are likely to find one of their key breeding grounds slicked-over with oil.
6.More than 125 miles of Louisiana’s coast have already been contaminated, sparking fears about the region’s already endangered wildlife. And heavier amounts of tar balls and other oil debris have washed up on Alabama’s Dauphin Island and parts of Mississippi.
So: If you don't like offshore oil then walk!
Oh, but I have a biiiiike.
I mean, it's not our fault. Our whole lives big oil has said: you know, this is really bound to fail but we have this thing called gas. And we could use it, I mean, it's extremely dangerous to our ecosystem, but we could try it out. And all that bit about the ozone, that's probably just made up so this, "GO GREEN" ridiculousness could happen on the grand scale that it is today. (And to think, we used to hate hippies didn't we?) But going green makes companies money too, it's a marketing tool. But back to the point. If they can drill for oil, and it not endanger water (because water is it. I mean, we need it, a lot. It's what creates oxygen pretty much and God kinda decided this is all the water we get, soooo we should try not to to treat it like, I don't know, a litter box), but if they can drill and water is safe and it isn't a powder keg of destruction, then I'm for it.
And I mean, I'm just an 18-year-old, I have a car that I like to drive, I don't have a husband out there off shore risking his life for me and my kids. And I'm not going to stop putting Popeye's cups in parking lots when I run out of cupholders (seriously, where else am I going to put them?!) But you can't always expect there will be someone to clean up the mess you make. And BP dropped a lot of popeye's cups in the gulf.
So, yeah, I guess I'll walk (or BIKE! ), if that's what it takes to make sure I can see the day when the south isn't plummeting into a depression, or the wetlands haven't fallen into oblivion and its animals aren't extinct, and we aren't rationing out SEA FOOD, or WATER.
Every cause has an effect. Every action has a reaction. And it isn't always negative, but this is something that should have been planned, avoided, handled in less than two months. This isn't a science experiment, this is the only world we have. And we're watching the south be the frist thing to go. And so no, I'm just not for that, because I happen to love more than just the crawfish here. And I would hate to see any of it go.
>>>
FACTS ABOUT THIS WHOLE SHINDIG:
1. BP execs were celebrating safety on the Deepwater Horizon at the exact moment it blew up.
In a curious twist, BP chose April 20 as the date for an on board party to commemorate "Deepwater Horizon going for seven years without an accident." A number of company executives reportedly flew out to the rig to take part in the festivities. The natural gas explosion that killed 11 crew members and eventually sank the rig "blew out the wall leading to the galley, where [the] party was being held."
2.Louisiana's traditional "Shrimp and Petroleum Festival" will proceed as planned.
Morgan City, LA, is celebrating the 75th annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, even as gobs of sweet crude are threatening to wipe out the state's seafood business for a generation. "All systems are go," said Lee Delaune, the festival’s director. "We will honor the two industries as we always do. More so probably in grand style, because it's our diamond jubilee."
3.BP thinks there are walruses in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the company's "Regional Oil Spill Response Plan, Gulf of Mexico" — a document that tragically ignores the possibility of an event resembling the current spill — BP lists walruses as one of the "Sensitive Biological Resources" in the Gulf. As most average second-graders know, the blubbery mammals reside exclusively in the Arctic.
4.Certain sea turtles just can't catch a break.
In 1979, endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles were airlifted from Mexico to the Gulf Coast so they wouldn't be wiped out in the huge Ixtoc blowout, the oil disaster that most closely parallels the BP spill. Now, in their transplanted nesting ground, the species could be wiped out by the Deepwater Horizon gusher.
5.With their population at less than 20 percent of what it was four decades ago, bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic need a lot of things to go just right if they are going to survive as a population. Now, just as they are returning to the Gulf of Mexico to spawn, they are likely to find one of their key breeding grounds slicked-over with oil.
6.More than 125 miles of Louisiana’s coast have already been contaminated, sparking fears about the region’s already endangered wildlife. And heavier amounts of tar balls and other oil debris have washed up on Alabama’s Dauphin Island and parts of Mississippi.
1 comments:
the entire oil response plan is a joke.
though I'm glad that the walruses are safe. (and nonexistent.)
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