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Uploaded by on Jul 4, 2010

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originally responding after I watched Re: Canadianbeaver takes a short look at oh my god(documentary)

It points out cleaning up oil off-shore is a whole lot cheaper than cleaning up oil once it hits shore, and that the use of dispersants is usually a whole lot cheaper than the manual clean up of shorelines.

Wow! That statement smacks of "penny wise, pound foolish" thinking. Also out of sight out of mind kind of thinking as well.

What for example are the long term global economic implications of wiping out one of the only two known breeding grounds for the Blue Fin Tuna? What impact are the dispersants having on the multiple larval stages of crustaceans such as shrimp that are part of the free swimming zooplankton in the Gulf of Mexico? What are the impacts of a thousand other unknowns we will be finding out about and the thousands of unknown unknowns we don't even know we should get data on?

Seems that the people who make these statements haven't put much thought into what they are saying, are ignorant of basic physics, chemistry and biology, let alone are they knowledgeable about complex interactions in food web ecology and furthermore have little concept of whole cost accounting.

Sounds to me like they are just a bunch of incompetent ignoramuses and should be doing something more in line with their competence level such as cleaning latrines.

We really need some big picture holistic thinkers with a solid grounding in science to step into their places. We just can't afford this kind of thinking any more!

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