BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico

This environmental catastrophe is the most important issue, nationally and maybe internationally, right now, and it barely got mentioned on NPR News this morning. Why is it that when a natural disaster happens it gets non-stop coverage until the crisis has been resolved, but when humans are to blame, the media drops the ball? Answer: corporations control the media, nay, feed it, sustain it. Why would the media attack or, heaven forbid, accurately and thoroughly cover corporate blunders. When Mother Nature deals us a blow its fine to sensationalize the story, make every detail juicy and dramatic, but when BP causes the worst oil spill in US and maybe world history, the story moves to the last page of the newspaper, gets brief mention by newscasters, as millions of gallons of oil stream into the ocean.

I am outraged. The country should be outraged that corporations can pollute this world and destroy countless human's and animal's lives while politicians defend them, and the media ignores the story. Thousands of peoples livelihoods are being ruined. The economic and health costs of this disaster are incalculable. Everyone working on the cleanup is being exposed to numerous carcinogenic chemicals: crude oil, Corexit oil dispersant, etc.. Animals are dying in huge numbers. The Gulf coast ecosystem, what little there is left of it, me be pushed over the edge and collapse.

This is bullshit, we need to sue the fuck out of BP until they are bankrupt, then we need to impeach every politician that has been in office more than a couple of terms, especially the ones that take lobbyist money (maybe that's all of them), and then we need to amend the US constitution so that it is illegal for corporations to do harm to people or the environment. We need a corporate Hippocratic oath to be written into every single corporate charter that says if you harm people knowingly or negligently then you are no longer a corporation.


Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
deepwaterhorizon.noaa.gov/

NASA's Imagery of the Oil Spill
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oilspill/index.html

Tracking the Oil Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/01/us/20100501-oil-spill-tracker.html?ref=earth

Crude Oil MSDS
http://www.elpaso.com/msds/A0017-Crude%20Oil.pdf

Corexit MSDS
http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf

BP Fails Booming School 101 Gulf Oil Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8kMXufu3w