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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:09 PM
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4. IF this volcano of oil cannot be stopped, most life on the planet is doomed.
IF this volcano continues unabated for YEARS, as one official suggested it might, then it will pollute the oceans of the entire planet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

This pollution would severely inhibit, or could possibly even stop, photosynthesis.

It is estimated that between 70% and 80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants growing on the continental shelves.



I'm not at all superstitious, but could the Mayans be right?
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  -How Bad Could the BP Spill Get? - Mother Jones WillyT  May-15-10 10:04 AM   #0 
  - There's an Ocean under the Ocean.  Skink   May-15-10 10:21 AM   #1 
  - Fuck  HCE SuiGeneris   May-15-10 02:13 PM   #2 
  - Spill sounds too limited, this is a gusher, Gulf Oil Gusher aka; GOG.  Uncle Joe   May-15-10 02:17 PM   #3 
  - IF this volcano of oil cannot be stopped, most life on the planet is doomed.  Duppers   May-15-10 05:09 PM   #4 
  - The Mayans should have warned us dammit!  lunatica   May-15-10 05:15 PM   #5 
     - they did. december, 2012.  roguevalley   May-15-10 11:41 PM   #6 
        - So where are the pictographs of oil rigs and explosions and gushers!  lunatica   May-16-10 10:40 AM   #9 
           - bwahahaha! that's top secret. :)  roguevalley   May-17-10 04:49 PM   #10 
  - But BP apparently thinks that knowing the true extent of the spill woudl *hinder* efforts to plug it  fishwax   May-15-10 11:49 PM   #7 
  - It's not their goddamn ocean!!....  hwmnbn   May-16-10 10:04 AM   #8 
  - US corporatocracy: UNFIT FOR SERVICE  upi402   May-17-10 04:51 PM   #11 
 

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