Carl Safina The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims

Can Good Emerge From the BP Oil Spill?

So while the oil spill, the leak, the eruption, is a catastrophe, I think it's important to keep in mind that we've done a lot to affect what's in the ocean for a very, very long time.

People got very upset when the BP oil spill happened for very good reason.

As a result of the Canadian National Railway oil spill, fish from the lake are not recommended for consumption.

My students produced these info graphics as a result of a unit that we decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill.

The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game changer of historic proportions.

So I think that the oil blowout, the bank bailout, the mortgage crisis and all these things are absolutely symptoms of the same cause.

We're either going to have an absolutely unmitigated catastrophe of this oil leak in the Gulf, or we will make the moment we need out of this, as many people have noted today.

As with BP, the hole does get plugged, at least temporarily, but not before exacting a tremendous price.

When it comes time to spawn, they come inside, and these two tuna that were tagged, you can see them on the spawning grounds very much right in the area of the slick.

So the blowout in the Gulf is just a little piece of a much larger problem that we have with the energy that we use to run civilization.

We have also been able to watch on our televisions this month what appears to be the final stages in the battle to cap the huge oil spill off the coast of Florida and Louisiana.

Leakage

Containment, not Appeasement

Containment Begins at Home

The Containment Debate, Round Two

CANBERRA Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a president who is cool, calm, and collected in a crisis except when there is a crisis.

That strategy is containment.

The OPEC Oil Embargo at 40

Education Rates, Attendance Rates and Drop Out Rates

The Executive Board shall develop guidelines to estimate leakage.

In a non oil economy, labor is the main engine of wealth.

Various estimates of the extent of the spill were made, the final one being , of which only were recovered.

The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.

In all other cases leakage estimation is required.

When containment has been abandoned, America has paid a high price.

America might speak the language of cooperation, but its real game is containment.

The Department for Regular Attendance and the Prevention of Dropouts in the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport has been active on all levels to raise the percentage of attendance and prevent dropouts in all sectors.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the necessity that had been driving containment disappeared.

But now we know that the containment regime worked.

Containment against Libya was not appeasement.

Vietnam was America s costliest departure from containment.

Containment is hardly a relic of the Cold War.

So it should surprise no one that containment is coming to dominate Asian diplomatic discourse.

For Fukushima, crews are valiantly trying to stop the radiation leakage.

Moreover, containment would undermine India s energy interests.

Measurements were made when the warheads were in various levels of containment and shielding.

About a year prior to this oil spill, a 17 year old student had invented a degreaser.

The overall drop out ratios were relatively low, but they have increased for the last two years.

Female illiteracy has been reduced to acceptable levels, and school dropout rates have declined.

Girls who are at risk of dropping out can take remedial courses or special tutoring (some 4000 girls benefited between 2000 and 2002).

(a) Containment Sites or facilities, fixed or mobile, meeting the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) of high or maximum containment for work with human and animal pathogens, or with containment for working with plant diseases

The other alternative to a rebirth of containment would consist in accepting the Russian argument, or more precisely, Russian emotions.

This important dimension of a smart power strategy for the twenty first century is not captured by the concept of containment.