Graphic shows number of animals collected near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

nashville_brook

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Sat Jun-12-10 10:25 AM
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Graphic shows number of animals collected near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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Graphic shows number of animals collected near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

This graphic depicts the total number of living and dead animals collected in four states since the oil spill began.

Louisiana has found more dead animals than Alabama, Florida and Mississippi combined. The Fort Jackson station in particular has been overwhelmed by live birds, more than 470 of them so far, while other Gulf Coast facilities have collected only about 30 live birds total and roughly 400 more dead birds since the massive spill began on April 20.

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Angry Dragon

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Sat Jun-12-10 10:32 AM
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1. One of the comments

BP kept its promise to the Gulf States. There were no affected Sea Otters or Walruses.

These are really sick people that run bp

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nashville_brook

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Sat Jun-12-10 10:58 AM
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2. thank god the penguins are safe!

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Angry Dragon

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:05 AM
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3. They are losing their ice though

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nashville_brook

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:08 AM
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4. but -- the imaginary BP penguins are a-okay.

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Angry Dragon

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:14 AM
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5. Yes

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jgraz

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:39 AM
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6. Take the number of dead and multiply it by 10 (at least)

That's the number who have died and sank to the bottom.

The sick part is, it's likely the dispersants, not the oil, that have killed the most animals. Oil on the top of the water can be avoided, boomed or collected. Oil mixed with cubic miles of ocean can't.

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nashville_brook

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:59 AM
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8. and it won't capture the creatures that won't be born b/c their eggs have been destroyed.

and, really, it goes on and on.

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jgraz

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Sat Jun-12-10 12:04 PM
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9. I was mostly thinking about the horrible suffering these animals are experiencing

But yes, we're going to lose entire species because of this. Homo Sapiens Sapiens may be one of them.

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nashville_brook

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Sat Jun-12-10 04:27 PM
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11. you are correct -- the suffering is foremost.

i keep putting on my park docent's cap -- thinking about how one hitch in the food chain takes the whole thing down. had a quiet moment last night thinking about how everything dies, and the only upside to that is that the cycle of life continues.

dark, oily thoughts.

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G_j

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Sat Jun-12-10 12:08 PM
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10. at the very least nt

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cwydro

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Sat Jun-12-10 04:51 PM
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12. Exactly.

These criminals, aided and abetted by our government, continue to spray the dispersants knowing full well what the effects are.

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Cetacea

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Sat Jun-12-10 11:44 AM
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7. Apologies to Lennon: The Walrus was Flipper

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azul

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Sat Jun-12-10 06:36 PM
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13. I hold that many people are numb or indifferent to the suffering and death

of these creatures because of the way animal farming has been industrialized:

People offered the sanitized animal product don't really want to know of or care about the will-to-live of the source.

And the next step is not wanting to feel bad about the collateral damage of driving their costly and snazzy rides.

And the next step is not wanting to feel bad about America when she terrorizes peoples and countries with kidnapping and torture and invasions and drone bombings, so we get to classify these perceived enemies as sub-human, and don't really have to worry about it either?

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