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when NOAA, SCRIPPS, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic institute inform us that the whales are gone from the Gulf, that many of the now spawning Bluefin tuna died and that the entire year-class of tuna fry are wiped out, that oil in the Sargassum has killed all the eggs, fry, seahorses, and fish that inhabit those mini-ecosystems, that the shrimp numbers have crashed since their food is fucking dead, that the seabirds and shorebirds are gone, that the mangrove trees are dead, and that the oysters will taste like oil for decades, we may finally be pissed off enough to sue for animal cruelty. You made a good point.
BP will probably argue back that we had already killed a huge portion of the Gulf in the zero-oxygen zones from our wastewater and fertilizer discharges, and they will be right.
No matter who gets sued, nor who gets the fine money, most EVERYTHING in the Gulf will still be dead, or at least in an unhealthy condition. On the bright side, the Gulf residents can eventually brag that their semi-tropical Gulf weather will breakdown the oil at least a century before mother mature can do the same thing at the site of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound.
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