As always, nothing happens all by itself. Everything happens in some kind of context; concomitantly; in conjunction with...etc. So the oil flood south of New Orleans comes at a time when the dead zone (also just south of NO - and the 2nd largest in the world) is gearing up for the summer season as the Mississippi dumps a jillion tons of animal waste, lawn care chemicals, farm fertilizers, parking lot runoff, and partially treated human shit into the Gulf of Mexico.
From discovery.com
From mindfully.org
I guess we can hope that this disaster contains the usual 30% sawdust-as-dramatic-filler-material that our Press Poodles love to pimp to us. Or maybe we shouldn't hope for that at all. What if the media types tell us it's gonna be huge, and then it isn't so huge, and then we get the feeling that this isn't as bad as it actually is? We can all go back to pretending that we're not driving ourselves over the cliff.
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