What amazed me is how docile the common man is

[Stargazer99]

This BP mess is killing species we may never see again. Some wildlife's reproductive activities take place where all this oil and chemical are now. Even some humans have become ill from the mess and the common man DOES NOTHING! No wonder BP is not afraid,the laws protect business not human life or animal life. What the hell to we have to do to get some common sense into our laws? Now drilling in Alaska....the average person and enviroment apparently is just collateral damage. The stink coming out of the nation is unbelievable.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Honestly, I don't know what to do.

I vote, I write letters, I call, I donate to environmental groups :shrug: ... I have had fantasies of tracking down all BP/Halliburton execs and doing unspeakably violent things to them, but realistically I'm not going to do that.

[The2ndWheel]

2. Well we were going to use that oil anyway

"This BP mess is killing species we may never see again. Some wildlife's reproductive activities take place where all this oil and chemical are now. Even some humans have become ill from the mess and the common man DOES NOTHING!"

Take out the BP from that, and you could say the same thing if the pipe didn't break, and everything worked perfectly. If the pipe breaks we call it a disaster. If it doesn't break we say we're growing our economy. Either way, the oil is out of the ground.

[stray cat]

3. So how are you going to change the BP oil spill? Or are you too docile?

[quakerboy]

4. What should they do?

Evacuate all the animals and people from the effected regions? And put them where. Clean it all up? How...

Once things get fucked like this, some people sit in denial until it becomes undeniable. Others look for solutions, even when there are not any. And some people wait for the wave to crest and hope that somehow life will go on, and that we somehow will learn something.

[pitohui]

5. you're doing exactly NOTHING yourself

i don't know where you get off on telling us that we're doing "nothing"

the people of louisiana are good people and we wanted to drill and contribute to this nation that basically doesn't appreciate us for crap and has treated us like crap for decades even though we're the life blood of this nation (with the artery of the mississippi river and our willingness to extract oil/gas)

if not for us (and texas) you'd be choking in a cloud of chemical smog right fucking now, because the alternative to oil happens to be coal and has been for over one hundred years

do i sound testy? it's because i am -- more people have volunteered to put up barriers and to clean oiled animals than they can use, NOBODY is doing NOTHING by choice, but the fact of the matter is, this was a BIG disaster caused by technology and it needs major tech to clean it up

volunteers are literally being told there isn't room for all of them

so don't sit there and tell me about the "common man" doing nothing when you have no clue what you're talking about, and you're meanwhile cooking food, air conditioning your home and putting gas in your car like everybody else

sometimes the most helpful thing a person can do is get the heck out of the way of people who are doing the emergency work, if that's doing nothing it's somehow more positive than making a nuisance of yourself by tearing down people who are trying to do SOMETHING

this is bad, it's really bad, and screaming for blood doesn't help anyone or anything, we need positive suggestions not "let's all riot and show our asses and put ourselves in the wrong"

sheeesh