Cousteau: It's Not a Question of Can the Oceans Take Any More - The Oceans Can't Take Any More

[babylonsister]

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/philippe-cousteau-its-not-question-can-oce


Philippe Cousteau: It's Not a Question of Can the Oceans Take Any More - The Oceans Can't Take Any More
By Heather Sunday May 30, 2010 8:00am

video at link~


Bill Maher talked to Philippe Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau about his recent trip to the Gulf where he was as Karoli wrote trying to see if BP's application of the dispersant Corexit was effective or more harmful. Maher asked him if it looked like the federal government or anybody were in charge down there and about the talking point that the oceans will "take care of themselves" after these disastrous oil spills.

Cousteau: It’s getting better. You know I was down in Grand Isle, LA about three days ago now working with some folks in wildlife and fisheries from the state of Louisiana and what I was hearing on the ground was a lot of frustration that for about a month—we’re into what? 38 days now—for about a month nothing was happening and it took the… Jefferson Parish down there, some of the authorities to commandeer the equipment from BP and the contractors to start doing something… Now they’re trying to. It’s a little too late now.

Maher: I hear this on the right wing media outlets. The ocean is so vast and I’ve heard the phrase “It will take care of itself”. That’s bullshit, right?

Cousteau: Yeah. Of course. Of course. Listen…

Maher: I thought so….

Cousteau: The perfect word is… bullshit.

Maher: …is bullshit.

Cousteau: Listen, you know I could cut my leg off, I could cut my arm off, I could gouge my eye out, I’d still probably survive, but not very well, and that’s what we’re doing to the ocean. It’s the life support system of this planet. We’ve been dumping in it. We’ve been polluting it, we’ve been destroying it for decades, and we’re essentially maiming ourselves.

Maher: What is the tipping point? I mean, I don’t know how we had a spill like this, obviously the Exxon Valdez, there was an even worse one in Mexico in 1979.

Cousteau: Yeah.

Maher: But where, that was all those years ago, did that come back, that area of Mexico?

Cousteau: Well you know it’s…

Maher: Do these areas ever come back?

Cousteau: That’s the question. That’s the issue Bill. You know the Florida Keys, third longest barrier reef in the world is a dead zone. 90% of the big fish, the tuna, the sharks and everything are already gone in the ocean. There’s a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico every summer the size of New Jersey where there’s not enough oxygen for things to live. So it’s not a question of can the oceans take any more. The ocean can’t take any more. They couldn’t take any more fifty years ago. The question is, when are we going to stop?

Like I said, I’ll survive without a leg and an arm and an eye and all these kinds of things but it’s not going to be pretty and that’s what we’re doing to the oceans. It’s not a case of can they take it any more. They can’t take it any more.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I saw this show and immediately liked him for his brain and...

well...

[Mojorabbit]

6. Oh my

if I were thirty years younger...

[CoffeeCat]

9. makes me want to take up scuba diving...

I'm a happily married woman, but you don't have to be single
to see that this guy is smokin hot!

[stranger81]

33. Ditto exactly what you said.

I think I need to open a window in here.

[begin_within]

14. I agree. Awesome haircut.

Handsome guy too.

[defendandprotect]

17. ...yes, but GREEN is sexy . . . compassion for animal life, nature . . . .

an alive human spirit --

Oh, yeah . . !!!

[flamingdem]

19. .. and for his lower riser marine package maybe? nt

[nilram]

36. Great... personality! -nt

[undeterred]

25. Magnificent Brain.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. A college classmate of mine looks almost EXACTLY like this guy! -nt

[dsc]

27. He is an utter hottie

my gaydar didn't ping though so I think he is one of yours.

[Karenina]

2. The Great Pacific Garbage Dump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNqzAHGXvs

Can we spell FOOD CHAIN, girls and boys? I KNEW we could! :evilgrin:

[defendandprotect]

18. ... but capitalism is organized crime -- Mafia -- can they spell "food chain" ....???

[Karenina]

30. They don't care.

[xchrom]

3. The oceans are only as important as political leadership

Allow them to be.

[defendandprotect]

20. ... rather, they're only as important as elites will permit them to be . . .

they OWN our elected officials.

[OJones]

4. Thanks for posting this!

:kick:

[BeFree]

5. Was saying this yesterday

That in the bad shape the gulf ecosystems were already in, this was like cutting legs off the support of those already crippled ecosystems.

Fucking crime what has been done.

The gulf has not recovered from Ixtoc, and anybody saying it has doesn't know what they are talking about.

[defendandprotect]

31. How many Americans know all of this . . . ??? Few, I'd imagine cause our

"free press" is certainly not reminding them --

[Catherina]

7. Thank you. Most depressing but we need to face this. Rec'd n/t

[Catherina]

8. Video here

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-interviews-ecologist-philippe-cousteau-on-the-gulf-of-mexicos-future/

[flvegan]

10. Make a difference today. Stop eating "seafood"/marine animals.

It really is that simple in what you can do right now.

[prairierose]

12. Yes, I saw a show on PBS last year about how ...

fish stocks have been so depleted in the oceans. Tuna are almost gone. I stopped buying tuna last year. Did you know that the Gulf of Mexico is one of the major breeding grounds of half the tuna populations of the world?

I love tuna and will be very sad when they are gone and considering how so many people do not have a clue of how far advanced the problem is, I expect that I will hear the announcement that we have destroyed tuna on this planet. Soon they will be extinct and that too will be a man-made disaster.

[defendandprotect]

22. ... and how many more man-made disasters behind this one... they're piling up . . .

and most Americans don't really have a clue about Global Warming thanks to

50-60 years of lies by the oil industry!

I'm a Vegan, but occasionally buy tuna for my husband -- no more!!

[opihimoimoi]

11. A new SOLUTIONS R US outlet opening here soon....what is the question?

[riverbendviewgal]

13. My little boy idolized his grandfather

The little boy is now 40 . He loves science and scuba diving.

I feel like I am watching my house on fire when I read and see this oil spill. I feel
so helpless.

[defendandprotect]

15. Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster

Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 13 mins ago
NEW ORLEANS – Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton.

Researchers have said they have found at least two massive underwater plumes of what appears to be oil, each hundreds of feet deep and stretching for miles. Yet the chief executive of

BP PLC — which has for weeks downplayed everything from the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf to the environmental impact — said there is "no evidence" that huge amounts of oil are suspended undersea.

BP CEO Tony Hayward said the oil naturally gravitates to the surface — and any oil below was just making its way up. However, researchers say the disaster in waters where light doesn't shine through could ripple across the food chain.

"Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that," said Prosanta Chakrabarty, a


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_re_us/oil_spill_mysteries_of_the_deep



Thought I might as well post this here--

[defendandprotect]

16. Renew the 26 year Moratorium on off-shore drilling ..... !!! Like everything else rw has undone . .

it has brought disaster upon us!!

And if Obama wants to continue on with this insanity of off-shore drilling, with

charter schools, with bailing out corrupt capitalism . . . I'll be looking for

another Democratic president to support and campaign for!!

[Uncle Joe]

21. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

[highplainsdem]

23. K&R

[matsovani]

24. It is people like Philippe Cousteau who

should be in charge of places like the U.N.
And he's so nice to look at too.:woohoo: :applause: :grouphug:

[underseasurveyor]

28. His Grandfather said 30 years ago

The oceans were very sick and dying and if we stopped polluting them now they still might be able to recover.

And now 30 years later and in that time how much more damage have we caused? Will it survive? Can it survive?

[bdamomma]

29. this just really sucks.

[flamingdem]

32. ALERT: he's on CNN now with Rick Sanchez nt

[DissedByBush]

34. The ocean will survive

Long after we're gone it will clean itself up. It will be like we were never here.

The problem is while we're still here we're screwing ourselves by messing with the ocean.

[earth mom]

35. Sounds like the OP thinks that Obama should do nothing about the spill because it's already too late

To that I say: :puke: :grr: