The spill brings us face to face with issues that are deeper than the mainstream media understands how to follow. The consideration of the food chain scenario, above, is just one entry point into the humbling reality that nature is so much more intelligent, complex, and connected than we allow ourselves to admit that we do not know much at all about how to truly interact with her.
And, do we feel the 5,000 barrels/day, or is it 60,000 barrels, or 100,000 barrels; will this all just stay conveniently away from other water regions? Just how much denial can you swallow? The planetary movements of the ocean currents will carry this level of toxic releases that we have dug up from its intended place, out of harms way, throughout the entire North Atlantic. As the public comes to consider this, gradually seeping like the oil into our awareness; how will you trust the safety of any wild fish from the entire North Atlantic? What agency will you trust to feed fish from these regions to your children? No need to wait for some atomic bomb or other drama to alert us to the changes necessary.
Yet, as we all sense, the media cameras will all too soon move on. And, as with the Exxon Valdez spill before this, all efforts will be to return to business as usual.
Where is the rage? Why aren’t fishermen, and students, and chefs, and environmentalists, and mothers, and hotel owners, and beachcomers, and surfers, and seafood lovers all marching in the streets??? Is this not bad enough a disaster? Do we need to see more pain to exercise our new muscles to take us toward a more secure and healthy future? If we value our Natural Resources as the national economic security issues that they really are; this would be a Department of Defense and Homeland Security matter that would dwarf “9/11″!