Some food for thought:
http://www.realclimate.org/
Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills
Filed under:— david @ 16 June 2010
That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geologic time scales). But think of it — five thousand spills like in the Gulf of Mexico, all going at once, each releasing 40,000 barrels a day, every day for decades and centuries on end. We are burning a lot of carbon!
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Well, that little factoid sure puts the oil spill into perspective. I also saw an article about Nigeria where the poor of that country continually deal with the pollution of oil spills that neither the oil companies nor the goverment seem to care about.
Side note: Due to decreased regulation, will polluting industries continue to move to the developing world and pollute more? Bribes are cheaper than new coal scrubbers.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
