Reply #9: As I said, I am not looking at this in a single HUMAN lifetime

[nadinbrzezinski]

or for that matter the thousands upon thousands of lives for Phytoplankton.

And I am well aware that this will take AT LEAST ten years.

That is the the happy outcome. But you are telling me that nature will not take of this? If not, how exactly has nature dealt with this in geologic time? Oh wait, evolution... we actually have bacteria that have evolved that dissolve this stuff. That said, on a non happy ending, this could take far more than one lifetime, human that is.

But this will not kill the gulf, or destroy nature... what it will do, is exactly what any disaster does, change the nature of life. And I appreciate that far more than you understand. I know that a personal disaster changes a life, or lives, and so do massive disasters.

If you think understanding natural processes is pollyanish, then guilty as charged.