The public knows about the April 20th explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon rig. The public knows about the 11 crew members that were killed in the explosion. The public has a general idea of the devastation the disaster is having on the environment and the livelihoods of people from Texas to Florida. And the public knows that the executives of the companies involved in the disaster don’t want to take responsibility for the disaster.
What the public may not be as aware of is that each one of the solutions to capping the oil spill (from the 100 ton containment box and the much smaller containment box to the chemicals being used under water to break up the oil and the recent effort to put a six-inch pipe in the twenty one-inch well column) are all experimental.
They’ve never been done before and each one so far has failed.
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Is The Debate On Climate Change Over?
English: Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The mainstream media reports that thousands of residents in New Jersey and New York are still without power in the destructive wake of Hurricane Sandy.
The scientific community has pretty much accepted their own data that the polar caps are melting and the oceans are raising and getting warmer. There are fewer and fewer skeptics who can deny the data with a straight face.
So, is climate change real? That may be the wrong question.
Rachel Carson proved beyond doubt that we humans as a species do impact the environment. This planet is our home.
The right question may be: How much longer can we mindlessly poison this planet before we destroy our home? Which brings us to another question.
What are we going to do about it?
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