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Yes, the spill killed birds — but so far, less than 1% of the birds killed by the Exxon Valdez. Yes, we've heard horror stories about oiled dolphins — but, so far, wildlife response teams have collected only three visibly oiled carcasses of any mammals. Yes, the spill prompted harsh restrictions on fishing and shrimping, but so far, the region's fish and shrimp have tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually being lifted. And, yes, scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the destruction of Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes — a real slow-motion ecological calamity — but, so far, shorelines assessment teams have only found about 350 acres of oiled marshes, when Louisiana was already losing about 15,000 acres of wetlands every year.
Read more: www.time.com...
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Well, not only are you omitting...
Originally posted by eightfold
The OP reads like the writings of someone that's cast aside their physical body and ascended into PURE EGO, with giant capital letters to boot.
It's the shortsighted envirotards who need to return to school on this issue, rather than flaming THOSE WHO KNOW the facts.
Originally posted by eightfold
You're completely ignoring huge aspects of this story to support one of your previous threads. The OP reads like the writings of someone that's cast aside their physical body and ascended into PURE EGO, with giant capital letters to boot.
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
So, do you think I'm writing for Time/CNN now? I posted a link to the story in the OP. Did you bother to read it? You think it's inconsequential that Time/CNN has posted a prominent story about the mysterious ABSENCE of environmental damage?
Face it, you were WRONG. The ocean is resorbing the oil, there have been no mass die-offs, no coastal evacuations, the fishing restrictions are ALREADY being lifted, and there is NO SCIENCE behind your contention that this is going to harm the marine environment.
The FACT is that Mankind dumps over 300 million gallons of oil — both crude and refined — into the Earth's oceans EVERY YEAR, and it's been going on since before most of the ATS community was even born. Even before Mankind started polluting, the Earth NATURALLY leaked MILLIONS of gallons of crude into its own oceans every year for millions of years.
There are even microbial life forms that consume crude oil. Do you think they evolved in just the last two weeks? No, they evolved over MILLIONS of years due to nonstop exposure to oil in the marine environment.
It's the shortsighted envirotards who need to return to school on this issue, rather than flaming THOSE WHO KNOW the facts.