Who averts their eyes from the television when they show pictures of oiled pelicans in the Gulf?

[HughMoran]

I do :(

[hlthe2b]

brings me to tears...

I'm a mess right now...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I am jaded when it comes to disasters

having worked a few... I watch...

I don't know what that aays, but I watch. Something about bearing witness.

[Bobbieo]

15. I'm jaded when it comes to people but not to defenseless creatures, can't even look at the pictures

[Terra Alta]

2. me too.

Actually, I haven't watched the news in about a week. It's too damn depressing. :(

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Yes..cannot deal with it....Cannot look a pics online or the videos either.

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Me. I love birds.

[Brickbat]

5. I don't.

ETA: But then, I don't watch a whole lot of TV, either. But oiled birds don't inspire me to look away.

[Laura902]

6. It makes me sick, and makes me want to go down there and help

scrub animals and clean up, I so wish I could!

[The Wielding Truth]

7. It's not as bad as the dead American bodies and dying children of Katrina,

but it may be as caustic to the coastal ecosystems. It is frustrating,maddening, and exasperating.

[aquart]

17. We already have suicidal fishermen, and sick cleanup workers.

Are there are many children living in Grand Isle? Other places the spill will roam? This is a food chain collapse coming on top of global warming. You really think there won't be as many or more dead Americans? Dead children?

They won't die all in one place, all in a few days. But they will die of this. And we already have people believing it wasn't as bad as Katrina. It will be.

[The Wielding Truth]

35. Yes. I did comment on that. When the oil is covering the homeless

and the press and government turns its head then the disgust factor will be equal. Katrina was the most callous US event I have ever witnessed.We can still hope that the BP disaster does not reach that degree although it may be more costly to our environment.

[Mike 03]

8. Yes, me too, I deliberabetly avoid the pix..

[cordelia]

9. Me

K/R

[Mike 03]

10. Rec this post. NC

[KathieG]

11. I do. It's extremely hard for me to watch.

:(

[aquart]

12. Me. Even a glimpse I cry.

It's not like I even need to look. I see it so clearly in my mind.

[Mike 03]

13. ( wish you would put a word in for the other wild life here NC

[SidDithers]

14. In case anyone wants it...

I made this avatar for another poster earlier in the week.



Sid

[Mind_your_head]

16. I avert my eyes whenever I see Wolf Blitzer or anything 'Faux'. eom

[Bluzmann57]

18. I have trouble watching dead men

Such as the men who perished on the BP oil rig during the explosion that caused this whole thing.

[Lisa0825]

19. I can't handle seeing suffering... especially animals or children. nt

[City Lights]

20. I can't stand to look.

:-( It makes me really sad. :cry:

[Captain Hilts]

21. I do. nt

[mikelgb]

22. hate to say this but sticking your head in the sand is part of the problem

as hard as it may be to watch, you must

you must allow the images to affect your emotions as they will

only with the anger and disgust will real change come

[HughMoran]

29. I watched 3 weeks ago, and 2 weeks ago and last week

It's not like the suffering isn't bothering me - it's the exact reason why I look away from the screen!

[Catherina]

23. I watch but I cry. It's terrible to witness this

It sees like the last 10 years have been one long nightmare.

This wasn't what I bargained for in my youth. :hug:

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. Rips me from the gut.

Glad I am not alone.

[handmade34]

25. very difficult to watch

and be powerless to help. I am headed to the New Orleans area in June for work... I am anxious about what I will see then

[Maru Kitteh]

26. I can't look at any of the animals or it keeps me awake - burns behind my eyes

Rage, anguish, despair - I feel them all already. No need to compound it further. It's already quite acute.

[glinda]

27. I walk out of the room. Cannot watch any of this. Not even the oil coming out.

[devilgrrl]

28. Me.

:cry:

[QC]

30. I live on the Gulf Coast. I probably won't have to see them on tv.

I'll probably get to see them up close and personal.

[jimlup]

31. Don't we have to look?

I know it is horrible but we have to remember it and pass our memory to our children ...

[Melissa G]

32. I live in Texas. I feel like I'm bleeding for the Gulf. My stomach really hurts

right now from the despair I feel over yet another devastation. :cry:

[Berserker]

33. Here's a thought

next time you fill up at the pump picture what we are doing to the environment. We are all to blame. Supply and demand that's it that's all there ever will be. Enjoy.

[laughingliberal]

34. Me too.

I love pelicans. pelicans. One of my fishing spots in the Eastern Sierras is a staging area for them and I always look forward to their arrival. :cry: :cry:

[Mnemosyne]

36. I was in St. Croix a couple of weeks ago,

and spent hours watching the pelicans gliding along. I can't look. :cry::cry::cry: