about the oil in the Gulf
Beached dolphin at Horn Island, Mississippi
And now a few words from Larry Teich:
“Some thoughts about the oil in the Gulf. We need to stop calling it a spill. That’s a nice little word to decscribe what can be wiped up with some paper towels. It’s an oil gusher, avalanche, contamination or torrential explosion but not just a spill. Whatever the enormity of its effects on wildlife and the environment, people need to not be shocked or numbed into inaction. Doing anything will help even if it’s trying to prevent this from happening again. I’m just sorry that BP was the company involved since i’d like to be calling it the Gulf of Texaco now.”
Here are some links Larry provided about the spew: one is a CBS News story about BP withholding info and the other is a Google map in which you can overlay layers of the spill and its effects by date: