Random thoughts from the aft deck.
Tomorrow, Saturday, is World Environmental Day.
But it is also a day of downers with the big oil gusher in the Gulf still spewing with little promise of an end in sight, at least not right now for the sea creatures and the birds and the coastal marshes and lands, let alone the folk who live and work on those shores. Irresponsible criminality doesn't even come close to describing what lies behind (underneath?) this. Perhaps corporate hubris on a giant scale comes closer.
Looking at charts of the spill in far away waters, with little reference to scale, doesn't quite carry the devastating impact.
Want to make it closer to home?
Thanks to People for Puget Sound's Facebook posting, "Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster" you can do just that. Click on Location (just above the chart), enter Seattle (or anywhere else you'd like), then click on Move The Spill and you'll get a sense of what this would mean if it happened here (or elsewhere).
To be sure, a downer of a way to end a week. But for many Gulf shore folk, not to mention all those Gulf critters who use to fly and swim and crawl, this week has been their end, literally.
Wonder when we'll learn . . .
Photo: A seabird covered in oil wades in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the coast of Louisiana, June 3.
Thanks to People for Puget Sound's Facebook posting, "Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster" you can do just that. Click on Location (just above the chart), enter Seattle (or anywhere else you'd like), then click on Move The Spill and you'll get a sense of what this would mean if it happened here (or elsewhere).
To be sure, a downer of a way to end a week. But for many Gulf shore folk, not to mention all those Gulf critters who use to fly and swim and crawl, this week has been their end, literally.
Wonder when we'll learn . . .
Photo: A seabird covered in oil wades in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the coast of Louisiana, June 3.
