I'm not a religious man but...dear God!

[Subdivisions]

These pics were taken out of the window by a passenger of a commercial flight (which we can probably safely assume was at cruising altitude of 35,000 ft.) from Key West to Phoenix:







Here is a gallery of oil catastrophe related images from the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html

[msongs]

1. oil is organic, it's......green lol nt

[pipi_k]

4. Yeah, next thing they'll be telling us is that

it makes a dandy organic sunblock for those high UV days.




On a serious note, though...

that photo is just heart wrenching. It actually makes me ill.

:(

[WillyT]

16. Hey... Don't Laugh... Remember Why They Had To Finally Settle On Soylent GREEN...

after going through Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow...

because the oceans were dying.

:scared:

:yoiks:

:evilgrin:

[Faygo Kid]

2. Worst manmade disaster ever?

The Gulf is dead now. I can't get my arms around this unimaginable catastrophe.

[intheflow]

6. "The Gulf is dead now."

I know! :cry:

I have friends posting on facebook who still think this is a "spill," that it can be successfully mitigated and most of the wetlands and Gulf life saved. Sometimes it really sucks to know as much as I do about current events and ecology, I hate being the one who always has to burst their bubbles about the breadth and depth of this disaster.

I am an optimist by nature but I am absolutely without hope about this disaster. :(

[lonestarnot]

9. I am nearly paralyzed. I feel like a fucking zombie and I can't find solace in the fact that others

feel the same way. It is the worst.

[Faygo Kid]

12. Me, too. Thanks to you and intheflow for commenting. Maybe we need to form a support group.

I am stunned by this disaster. This is one of the most monumental things to happen in my lifetime, and I'm nearly 60.

[lonestarnot]

18. The only comfort that I'm finding that hopefully we will not be overcome from it and

the country will unite in never again!

[Mojorabbit]

13. So am I

It feels surreal to me. I am just numb now.

[Individualist]

17. +1

[donheld]

23. No doubt about it

[lunatica]

3. In the future there will be a world disasters museum

And all the photos will be hung large in it. There will be some photos of before just so our grandchildren can see what the planet looked like before they were born.

[pipi_k]

11. It's going to be sad...very sad

I'm still grieving for the world I never knew before I was born.

A time when it was said that a squirrel could jump from tree to tree without ever touching the ground for at least 1000 miles starting at the East Coast and going West. Before the Europeans got here and devastated the forests.

A time when the air over what are now big cities wasn't stinking and yellow or brown.

When whatever people who lived here didn't see old tires and beer cans and plastic bags full of garbage strewn along the paths.

No concrete. No asphalt. Only large expanses of green and lots of native flowers.


:(

[donquijoterocket]

24. dead trees

And most of that devastation of those forests was to produce warships to support a burgeoning empire, England having already decimated their own native forests to that end.I agree with a friend of mine who claims that if there were a just and loving deity it would have moved the native inhabitants to have slaughtered all white colonists on sight and burned their ships to the waterline.He calls it prophylactic violence.

[katzenjammers]

5. I really think this is pretty much proof there are no gods...

or at least none that give a shit about us.

:cry:

[Odin2005]

7. Christ Almighty in Heaven!

:cry:

[dems_rightnow]

8. I've got a reverse osmosis thingie

... that turns oil back into dinosaurs. Considering unveiling it.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Hopefully the carnivorous kind

who will be out for revenge against the corporations who plundered the earth for the liquid remains of their ancestors.

Just picture a hungry T-Rex walking through the BP executive offices.

[laughingliberal]

10. If that doesn't make it clear that corporate fellating government is bad for people...

there's no hope for us. :cry:

It's all fun and games until a planet gets destroyed.

[Ratty]

14. Surprised BP didn't require airlines to shutter their windows

When flying over the spill site.

[flamingdem]

15. Let's not lose sight of the fact that there are 3,000 drilling rigs in the gulf

We have a lot of work to do to push for change ...

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. This made me literally catch my breath to the point I had to remember to breathe.

The feelings of helplessness are overwhelming.

[cornermouse]

21. BP says this is just a minor spill and won't have any lasting effects on the Gulf.

...I know. I never believed that either.

[d_b]

22. damn

[blindpig]

25. kick

Expropriate without compensation.

Nationalize the energy sector