Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Gulf Disaster

Every time I think about the oil spill in the Gulf, it makes me sick. I can't believe that it's happening. Oil is spilling out all the time. While I'm sitting here typing this, oil is spilling into the Gulf. I wish I could do something to help but there's nothing I can do! I keep imagining this huge Sham-Wow going into the Gulf, sucking up all the oil and fixing everything. But that's not going to happen. I am going to donate money to the NRDC (http://www.nrdc.org/) but I wish I could do more. I wish I had a real solution. I feel so bad for the people that live in that area and need the water to make a living. I feel so bad for the animals and plants that are being smothered in oil and dying. Will the ocean ever be the same?


Photos from The Huffington Post:


In this photo, it looks like there is a sad/pained/horrible face in the water. As though the ocean is screaming.




These oil blobs remind me of blood clots




I hate reading about it too: The cover-ups, the fact that BP could have installed a second cut-off system but didn't, not knowing exactly how much oil is spilling out or how far it's spread, that the efforts to stop the spill aren't going well, I can't take it. I've never felt so helpless and angry.

2 comments:

justadrienne said...

Ugh I know it is so horrible.

Unknown said...

i know. i feel like that's a big part of the reason i've been in a funk lately. it makes me sick and i feel kind of hopeless.