Killing a large swathe in the food chain can set-off a chain reaction.

[Union Yes]

This oil leak/gusher could literally threaten our global oceans.

Last I heard, 75% of the oxygen we breathe comes from our oceans.

Disturbing the delicate balance of our oceans food chain can have disastrous consequences for ALL life on Earth.

Killing off a huge swathe of the food chain can alter that delicate balance.

We're really playing with fire here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Yes we are

worst case scenario, and most of the time they don't come to be, we might have unleashed an extinction level event.

I doubt it will get that bad... RIGHT NOW. But if it does... I'll have to start giving more credence to... prophecy.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Let's start referring to the ocean life in the Gulf as 'wildlife' rather than as 'food'. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Actually food chain is the correct term, starting with Plancton

all the way up to higher level predators.

Would you rather think of it as the circle of life? We eat and we are eaten... that's the way it works.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Yes, I know. But so many refer to 'foodstocks' rather than 'wildlife' when it comes to oceanlife.nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Well some of it is food for humans

most is not...

And after this, given that humans were starting to depend heavily on sea based fisheries...

Head hurts, doesn't it?

[flvegan]

11. Only by choice and ego.

Something only humans bring to the "food chain"

[Union Yes]

4. I agree with the sentiment. It is life after all. Until it meets man.

:fistbump:

[Captain Hilts]

8. Thank you. nt

[flvegan]

5. Good luck with that here.

So many posts about the lost shrimp and fish...yeah, that humans didn't get to eat. Nothing to do with uncuddly animals. The birds and turtles...so sad. Otherwise, it fucks with my surf 'n turf buffet. Oh, my shrimp cocktail! My grouper.

Fucking hypocrites. Same greed that caused this applies here.

Flame away.

[Captain Hilts]

7. My sentiments exactly. I lived in Key West. On the water and I saw how the various

fish interacted with one another, etc. They're living creatures.

Kinda like, "I don't eat meat, but I will eat seafood." Is meat 'landfood'?

[misanthrope]

20. That was what I've noticed regarding initial reactions to this event...

...there were those who worried about industry and the others who worried about the ecology.

[Bluebear]

9. Only thing I can tell you is Joe Teabag only relates to FOOD, not wildlife.

Wildlife is for treehuggers. You can only appeal to his beer belly. :silly:

[FarCenter]

12. Possibly, but this spill has a long way to go to be as big as the previous oil spills

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill

See table of oil spills greater than 100,000 tons (greater than 733,000 barrels)

[lonestarnot]

13. We will be facing some dire consequences as a result of those fucking drill baby drillers.

[tblue37]

14. And our bee colonies are dying off, too. I think we might be on the road to extinction ourselves. nt

[Oregone]

15. Good riddance humans

[tblue37]

16. Unfortunately, we will be taking an awful lot of really cool

pants and animals down into the darkness of extinction with us.

[Oregone]

17. A cockroach told me those are necessary casualties leading to a better tomorrow

[The Doctor.]

18. You know Ben Stein?!?

Personally, I don't think I could bear listening to him for long.

[tblue37]

21. Funny. I came back to read the replies to my post, and discovered

my typo--that we would be taking down cool "pants" with us!

[Kablooie]

19. No we aren't. They are. We are just watching the flames growing around our feet.