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the consequences will never be the same

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v.depressing. i kinda hoped the days of major oil disasters was sorted out years ago, sadly i was very wrong.

how many times does it need to happen

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"This is a tragedy of enormous proportions. Not just because of the destruction of wildlife, which is more than tragic enough, but because of the destruction of the structure of almost every area citizen's lifestyle. People in this part of the Gulf have been dependent on its waters for generations, going all the way back to the 1800s. Now they, along with their Gulf waters environment, are being wiped out.

This isn't just a stake in the hearts of Louisiana watermen, inn keepers, boatyard owners and workers, small town business people and generations of gulf dwellers for years to come, this is a stake in the heart of America. The rest of us just don't feel it yet.

And what will happen to the watermen's boats that can no longer be paid for? Bankers will sell them to boat brokers who will buy them for pennies on the dollar and sell them world wide. Marinas, boat storage houses, fish houses, small town retail buildings, boat brokers, auto brokers, mom and pop grocery stores, and long-time family homes will all be divided up by bankers and fire-sold to cronies offering kickbacks. By the time nature makes a comeback in the Gulf, generations of watermen and shop and restaurant owners will have been long wiped out. Where will they go? It won't be like the dust bowl days, because there is no longer a California promise land waiting to take these proud, formally self-sufficient people in.

Denninger says this whole thing has been greatly over-blown. I guess that assessment depends on whose ox is gored, or, more germane, whose bait has been cut and whose rod has been forever broken. America is no longer a country in which the economically destitute have much of a future. America no longer has the resources to be forgiving to the disaster struck. It's places like the Gulf now, but, before long, life in much of America will mirror life in a late 1930s Steinbeck novel."

- Black Swan

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Sources: Wikipedia

hahahahahaa oh man, never thought I'd see the day.

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Maybe we shouldn't drill in the ocean?

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I was about to make a joke about wishing we could release a Kraken on BP, but oh BP probably already killed it, but I think that joke has been done to death.

The thought of a kraken going around destroying oil platforms is still amusing

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This is actually much better than I would have thought. 1,500 animals dead is not a good thing but I expected a lot more. Hopefully the oil won't have any long term impacts, but that probably isn't likely.

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While I agree that the oil spill is bad, but does anyone else think that this infographic is a bit on the sensationalist side?

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Consequences of the oil spill:

11. Provides opportunists another way to not 'let a good disaster go to waste' in order to further their goals.

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What software is used to make these infographics that I keep seeing on digg?

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I think its safe to say (on behalf of everyone): f**k BP!

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Digg needs to start an infographic boycott. They are a threat to all sight sensory organs.

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http://rorr.im

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"53 were dolphins and other animals"

What a useless stat. Was it 50 dolphins or one dolphin and 50 minnows?

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Infographics suck monkey balls.

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Thank goodness there are only 10 consequences. Imagine the infographic if it were in the thousands!

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I guess you could say that oil is

*takes off sunglasses*

all washed up

...on the shore

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