We were waiting breathlessly for this:
“Former US secretary of state Colin Powell joined calls for the military to take command of the operation from BP. Powell said the problem was beyond the capacity of BP to solve and the government should bring in “decisive force”. He said: “The military brings organisation, it brings control, it brings assets.”
War has become nation-building and peacetime operations have become warlike…
Everything is a crisis, everything is a war. Everything is about ceding more power to the state, while allowing the “private” sector to dump its costs on the government.
“Every time that oil takes out a piece of the marsh, a piece of Louisiana is gone forever.”
I’ve seen puddles of oil and other toxic substances with weeds growing quite healthy in the stuff, maybe I’m missing something but the effects from the spill seem to be over rated a bit.
The Mississippi River gets kind of dirty when it floods, the way people are acting, nothing should be living in the waters of the Mississippi river either, yet it does.
Well, that’s the guardian.
I find a lot of things about this oil spill awfully shady.
But I’m no scientist and the university scientists in the region thinks it has a huge impact, so let’s give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
It actually seems like something that could have been fixed quite easily if they’d started drilling the relief wells immediately..wasted a month and a half
Should a person think of this as like a wildfire? True there are huge losses, but there is regrowth.
Recently was there a nine month leak closer to Mexico just as big? And the effects were…? Not enough to make the news.
Undersea volcanoes don’t… ah, never mind, I’m no scientist either.