Coming up on two years and full story is still not known. “It was a disaster that was going to happen, but business and government simply pretended it was not going to happen.” That statement can be applied to nearly every environmental disaster. This piece links the Gulf oil spill to failing biological infrastructure that supports all life.
We Can Live Without Oil
“It was a disaster that was going to happen, but business and government simply pretended it was not going to happen.”
[Update: Why the BP spill cannot be cleaned up]
By Stephen Leahy*
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 10, 2010 (Tierramérica)
The policies and deals that contributed to the massive oil spill under way in the Gulf of Mexico are also jeopardising the Earth’s vital biological infrastructure, according to the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, published Monday.
The British Petroleum oil spill of 5,000 barrels a day in the Gulf of Mexico, which began Apr. 20 when an explosion caused a rupture at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, will have devastating consequences for marine life and coastal ecosystems for decades, experts say.
Similar business and policy decisions, multiplied thousands times over the last hundred years, have put the biological infrastructure that supports life in jeopardy,
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Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist 