Hello people, there is a major environmental disaster off the coasts of now 5 states.
Last night, CNN reported tar balls from the oil spill reaching Galveston, Texas and Lake Pontchartrain. I am amazed, shocked, disgusted and many other adjectives I am too lazy to write down.
If anything, people have been oblivious to this! What people don't seem to understand is the fact that the lack of response and emotion only encourages violating companies to continue their destructive practices. BP already had a massive disaster in 2005 when one of their refineries in Texas City exploded, killing workers.
There should now be an added urgency to this crisis. Hurricane season has begun and in the early months of it the Gulf and North Carribean are prime breeding grounds for hurricanes. No one has ever expierenced a hurricane strike on an oil spill and I'm sure that no one wants to.
So far there is no direct threat to the spill area, but that could change with a simple shift in the wind patterns.
This needs public attention and outrage. The media has lost the story, the public has lost the story and only enviornmentalists and the cleanup workers have sight of this. If we do not act this WILL happen again, possibly in the Gulf or somewhere far more disruptive.
