suppress what’s going on.” Dispersants have been used to “hide the body” of the oil spill. Safina thinks the spill will be catastrophic for marine life. He got very emotional talking about a dolphin seen by a fisher-
man. Apparently, the dolphin was spurting oil from its blowhole. “The dolphin came up to the boat, which they apparently never do, as if to ask for help.” He called the spill a “hemispheric issue that will have enormous biological effects.” Safina was highly critical of the “lack
of response plan and equipment.” He also said it was great that birds are getting cleaned, but then they are sent back to the oil slicked ocean. “It’s like cleaning up someone coming out of a burning house and then sending them back in.” Safina was highly critical of BP, arguing that “this was not an accident, but negligence.” He concluded that people are still using stone age-energy technology. Edited by Deb Percival. Reprinted with permission of The Dirt,
http://dirt.asla.org/, sponsored by the American Society of
Landscape Architects. To see the full article, go to
http://dirt.asla.org/. Editors Note: Spills are commonplace. There have been thousands of oil spills in the Gulf alone in the past 10 years. What You Can Do
Call and write to the President and your Congress people, tell them to stop deep water drilling, and beg them not to ap-
prove Arctic drilling (BP is scheduled to start drilling there this fall). Sylvia Earle says, “There are some places you should not drill, period.” Go to NPR and listen to “The End of Easy Oil – an eye-opener on impending drilling in the Arctic Oceans, where it will be impossible to stop a spill.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128212150&ft=1&f=13 Consume less. Nearly everything is made from oil, made by machinery dependent on oil, and transported by oil-based fuel. Send money to the Nature Conservancy, Oceana, Greenpeace, NRDC, Sierra Club, or any of the established and worthy organizations that are trying to mitigate this crisis and/or push for clean, renewable energy. I will send a spiffy Whole Foods reusable grocery bag to the first 5 people who send an e-mail to
dpercival@comcast.net
saying they’ve taken action on one of these 4 things. Deb Percival is a freelance writer in Connecticut. E-mail
debpercival@comcast.net.
We Have A Winner! The first person to respond to my offer of a reusable grocery bag in exchange for knowing that “reduce, reuse, recycle” is in priority order was Liz Bowen. Liz declined the tote, because she is reducing! Go Liz!!”
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