Exxon Valdez reporter/environmental author Charles Wohlforth weighs in on Gulf Spill (a good read)

[zonkers]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/a-valdez-reporter-on-gushing-gulf-oil/

"Each bulletin of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has washed ashore on my computer screen in a pattern disconcertingly similar to my memories of the Exxon Valdez here in Alaska 21 years ago, an event I covered intensely as a newspaper reporter, and which changed the direction of my life and the lives of many other people.

Particulars are different, but the similarities are deeper — even the pace of discoveries and disappointments, the arrival of the wildlife rescuers with their false hopes, the dawning knowledge that this problem cannot be fixed. And so the next phase isn’t hard to predict, either. A lot of activity, much of which will do more harm than good..."

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A very good read.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thanks for the link..

"The damage to ecosystems and communities can last a generation."

I am pretty sure it would be several generations...