Oil War on our Home Land
The beaches of oil are a pun us, instead of shark sightings closing the beaches, its oil, and globs of it. All along our southern coast, pristine beaches and wild life sanctuaries are being affected by the oil now washing up on the white sand beaches, and seeping into our wild life preserves. When will it ever stop?
The fishing industry was the first to feel the affects of the oil catastrophe, and now its tourism. Beaches are closing every day, people can’t even swim in the waters, and hotels and restaurants are loosing big bucks. Many of these businesses are already laying off people as they try to survive, but the reality is, many of them will be forced out of business. Potentuley, hundreds of thousands of people could find them selves un-employed, and thousands of businesses will be forced to close their doors.
The timing for this man made disaster couldn’t have been any worse. Just as our economic recovery is beginning, along comes the oil. The clean up costs will be in the tens of billions, and the job and tourism losses will even be higher. This isn’t just your average oil spill, it’s an economic disaster.
Yes, all of the blame might fall on the lap of BP, but the losses to our economy and ecological system means we all pay in the end. Even if the oil flow is stopped by the end of August, the long term damages will last for deck aids, possibly even for generations.
Every day, it becomes more apparent that BP is still not giving government officials accurate information, and that government officials/agencies are not reacting fast enough to protect our invaluable resources. I don’t have any answers, I don’t even have any solutions, but what I do know is that (transparency) is not getting the job done. It will take an army, a rapid mobilization of people and resources. As hard as people are working to save our beeches, fishing grounds, and coastal communities dependant on the Gulf of Mexico to survive, this is a war, a war that we can only win if we throw every resource we have at it now, and not six months or one year from now.
