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ardeegee, "nutbag" and "rabble", while perhaps accurate, are unhelpful. Let us prevent the rift in our nation from becoming a yawning, unbridgeable chasm. Since posting to the SF authors thread I've been re-reading Asimov's Foundation. Serious psychohistorical forces are at work right now. But I digress.
Oil has been washing up in the Louisiana wetlands. I fear that they are lost to us, perhaps forever. With the leak yet uncapped, the damage will grow by an order of magnitude. Was there ever any doubt? The opportunity to prevent it is long past, but we can still act to reduce the damage to the many species in the region.
I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't called my congressmen. I'll correct that shortly. I anticipate that BP's third attempt to cap the leak will also fail, because they are looking for fixes that will allow them to open the well again in the future -- and these are the sort of fixes most likely to fail. The federal government ought to take control of operations and place the finest scientific minds it can find to hire, coerce, or kidnap to find a way to cap the leak. And it should ensure that BP can never cause this kind of damage again, preferably by bankrupting the company to pay for the cleanup operations. BP has never learned, and will never learn, so break it up.
Really, I'm just sad.
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