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Disaster looms as oil slick reaches US coast

yoboy said:
Three years after the Ixtoc 1 spill in the late 70's, marine life was almost 100% back to normal. Bacteria in the ocean actually breaks down oil thus nature does much of the cleanup for us.
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In 1979 the nine month leak spread 1,100 square miles.

In the first five or six weeks the oil from this leak spread 29,000 square miles. In other words, this leak is flowing at about 200 times more oil per day than the 1979 Pemex disaster.


Way bigger, Way Deeper, Way more dispersant's....
 
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So how does everyone think this will impact global politics? Will taxpayers end up paying the price and corprofascists win again? Could this be the final wakeup call for American Sheeple and their blind faith in consumerism?

I think the visible severity of effects in the common persons life will be the final determiner.
 
^ I wouldn't hold my breath over that.

I think consumers will do the same thing they've always done to solve problems: consume more.

The only way to get consumers slightly irritated is either by destroying everything consumable, or by destroying millions of consumers, or by zeroing out all currency.

If anything, oil prices might go up, and consumers might grumble a little. In a few weeks, the new price becomes the norm, and it becomes a win-win situation for the corporate capitalists.
 
More than 70 people sick from oil spill
Thursday June 10, 2010
http://www.skynews.com.au

Seventy-one people in Louisiana have suffered health problems that officials believe are linked to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the state's department of health and hospitals said on Wednesday.

Fifty of those who have reported symptoms including throat irritation, cough, shortness of breath, eye irritation, nausea, chest pain and headaches, worked on oil rigs or were part of the effort to clean up the spill.

Thirty of the workers said their illness came on after they were exposed to emulsified oil and dispersant, said the report, which is updated weekly.

Eight people - all of them rig or clean-up workers - have been hospitalised with spill-related illnesses, the report said.

All hospitalisations were short, generally one day, it said.

Twenty-one reports of illness came from members of the general public and were overwhelmingly related to odors from the oil spill.

Most of the members of the public who reported symptoms were at home when they fell ill, the report shows.

The most common symptom associated with the spill was headache, followed by nausea, cough and throat irritation.

The Louisiana state health authority began gathering reports of human exposures to oil from the slick or chemicals used to disperse it four weeks after the April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon that caused the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The report was compiled using data gathered from emergency departments, outpatient clinics, doctors' offices and the Louisiana poison control centre.


..... evacuations in due time or a lot of sick people :(...
 
^^exactly. if this infiltrates the entire east coast as predicted, it will definitely effect many more lives than it already has.
 
Pander Bear said:
ya seriously.... I'm pro nuclear, but thats silly.
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How is it silly? That nuclear accident had little impact on the environment, or people for that matter.

Sure, it killed a few people when it blew up.. but so did this. Sure, it left nuclear shit in the air to this day, but people choose to live there and its pretty isolated and shithole of a place.

Gulf of mexico however, sustains MANY jobs, provides food and oil and many other resources, is the spawning ground for thousands of aquatic life forms, amongst MANY MANY other things.
 
we are talking about an elevated rate of cancer mortality for a generation of Europeans, more than a quarter million people displaced and resettled in the heart of the soviet union, there's a nineteen mile wide forbidden zone where you can still kick up enough radioactive dust to give yourself cancer, and this is 30 years after the fact, and its going to be like that for centuries.

So ya, I measure the impact on himan lives before I start worrying about where shrimp will be able to fornicate.;) Call me a humanist ;)
 
Mehm said:
^^exactly. if this infiltrates the entire east coast as predicted, it will definitely effect many more lives than it already has.
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There's a wealth of things to buy in order to forget about any problems. Haven't you seen all the ads on TV lately, you silly hippy? ;).
 
Alex Jones interviewed this man yesterday about the possibility that BP has drilled into a strata that has never been drilled into in the course of human history. The guest also claimed that there are other chemicals that are leaking from the ocean surface such as benzene that are very toxic to humans. Could this be true? I don't know much about the history or oil drilling, so I have no idea.

If a hurricane crossed pathes with this oil spill, could we be looking at a mass evacuation of the Gulf region? Even if a hurricane did not carry the oil on shore, I wonder if the possibility of an evacuation is something that the local/state/federal govt is looking at right now.

The idea has apparantely been tossed around to put a huge bomb down there to cholerize (sp? is this the term for burning something shut?) the leak. This is insane.
 
Ok... I'm going to mention first hand, that I might be out of my league here. I've never really followed politics and have little, but some, involvement in major current events such as this little oil leak. But I was reading an article and ran across a quote from NYC Mayor Bloomberg, which I thought "are you fucking kidding me???" I figured I'd share it here and see what kind of reaction it generated.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg became a lonely defender of BP, declaring the world should not rush to point fingers at the British oil giant. The billionaire tycoon often sides with CEOs and businesses entangled in public relations disasters.

"The guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show. "And what's more, if we want them to fix it and they're the only ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame."
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Does anyone else find it tragically funny that Bloomberg says BP is the only one with the expertise to fix this problem considering BP's website was asking the general population to come up with ideas to stop the leak? The things we've seen and heard about to take on this spill have been comical to say the least. These are solutions that elementary school kids would come up with for a class assignment... except they're coming from a multi-billion dollar oil company. It's really pretty pathetic. I'm not saying I could do any better myself, but then again, I've not been entrusted with that kind of responsibility.
 
I was watching TMZ yesterday and Ben Stein Supports BP and says pretty much for the people to lay of them..... what a fool.... i lost all respect for him after that....
 
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