So while the oil spill, the leak, the eruption, is a catastrophe,

Carl Safina The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims

Can Good Emerge From the BP Oil Spill?

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.

It was all the lies that got told before and after.

And I think, personally, that we have not begun to see the impacts of this spill on the wildlife of the Gulf.

But then, of course, there was the Deep Horizon 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.

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

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

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They were all on the Gulf in May, while oil was starting to come ashore in certain places.

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 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.

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

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

When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year during the horrific BP oil spill, a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus was quoted as saying,

she looks unconcerned, and seems to have her mind on something else.

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.

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.

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

The scientists I was with were not studying the effect of the oil and dispersants on the big stuff the birds, the turtles, the dolphins, the glamorous stuff.

Proven oil reserves production (years)

Leakage

The eyebrows are doing this, the eyes are defocused, and the mouth is hanging open.

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.

3. Impacts of oil pollution

So it's leaking?

local and international leaders soon disengaged and became distracted by the second Intifada, the events of 9 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Effects on water

I call it circling the drain .

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A lot of people seem to have in their mind that it is a very confusing process

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The Executive Board shall develop guidelines to estimate leakage.

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