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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:33 pm
 


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I would think that this idea wouldn't cross the mind of any sane human being with any dignity.
And I would incorrectly assume that no one would go along with it.
I would assume that as soon as someone said "Hey, maybe they're flammable",
someone else would say "That was a fucking stupid idea, leave the room."

But I am wrong and I continue to be amazed.


Idealism tends to go out the window when BP ( the people your working for) is trying to dig themselves out of a hole as fast as possible. I'm not really suprised since its greed that caused this disaster in the first place.

I'd like to think I would walk off the job if I saw that. I imagine some of the people working need the work they have a family to support etc... Even though they know its wrong they may not be in financial position to follow their moral compass and speak out leave etc.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:53 pm
 


Just to make everyone's day a little bit worse

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BP has good, if shocking, reason to want to kill these turtles. The Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle is on the Endangered Species Act list. Harming them is punishable by prison sentences and fines of up to $25,000 per violation – per turtle. But rather than allow rescuers to collect injured turtles from the burn boxes before the containment fires are lit, BP is choosing to deliberately burn the animals alive, thus incinerating the damning evidence.

Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who has been part of the sea turtle rescue mission observed the destruction going on in the sargassum waters. ‘Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden colour,’ he said. ‘You shake it, and all kinds of life comes out: shrimp, crabs, worms, sea slugs. The place is really just bursting with life. It's the base of the food chain.’ But now those areas are dying or already dead. ‘We'll see flying fish, and they'll land in this stuff and just get stuck.’ The sea jellies and snails that drift in these currents that form the major food sources for turtles have been almost totally exterminated. ‘These animals drift into the oil lines and it's like flies on fly paper,’ Witherington said. ‘As far as I can tell, that whole fauna is just completely wiped out. Most of the Gulf of Mexico is a desert. Nothing out there to live on. It's all concentrated in these oases.’

Destroying the planet used to be the stuff of scary movies and second-rate science fiction novels, something that might happen in the future, maybe, someday. So we ate our popcorn and alphabetized our battered collection of paperbacks, and continued to believe it was all still safely in the future, at arm’s length, a few accidents here and there distressing, but always with the faith that we’d recover.

But we’ve run out of the future, and it’s here. Now.

The Gulf of Mexico is dead.......


Y'know, I actually think I'm about to throw up from dwelling on this too much.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:23 pm
 


Thanos Thanos:
Just to make everyone's day a little bit worse

Y'know, I actually think I'm about to throw up from dwelling on this too much.

That article was very interesting and thoroughly depressing, as are all the rest of the Gulf related articles.

I remember when the first story about the rig fire was posted in this forum and I remember thinking "Wow, this is bad, this could get very serious".... Boy, did it ever escalate fast to being one of the worst disasters (if not THE worst) our planet has ever experienced. An entire eco-system appears to have been obliterated and will likely never recover.

If this isn't proof that we are truly destroying our planet, I don't know what is.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:07 am
 


It's 7 in the morning and after reading this, I could really use a bourbon.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:25 am
 


You will have to forgive my ignorance, but I can't help but wonder why the booms aren't set up around the area where the majority of oils first surfaces, and burned off at that point rather than letting it spread out. [huh]


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:45 am
 


Yogi Yogi:
You will have to forgive my ignorance, but I can't help but wonder why the booms aren't set up around the area where the majority of oils first surfaces, and burned off at that point rather than letting it spread out. [huh]


Ocean currents probably move it around alot before it surfaces.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:06 pm
 


It's like BP is trying to be as cartoonishly evil and incompetent as possible.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:12 pm
 


Exxon is likely loving it.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:17 pm
 


Yep, past devil Exxon meet the new pinata for the Yanks. BP.

Obviously all the American oil companies are much safer and care way more about the turtles.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:47 pm
 


They hate tigers though. How inhumane can you be shoving a big cat into a gas tank.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:50 pm
 


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