Reply #8: that's what has me so concerned [View All]

[Syrinx]

If the worst really does happen, this could have implications far beyond dirty beaches and some dead pelicans.

I'm thinking a virtual Armageddon. Interruptions in the natural food chain, and rain, far inland, poisoned, if not by the oil itself, then by the poisons called "dispersants" they are pouring into the gulf, that decimate not only agriculture, but also biology itself at the most basic level.

We all know that this is a seriously bad situation. But if "dougr" is in any way credible, then the situation may be something unimaginable by anyone but a screenwriter of a Bruce Willis blockbuster.

I'm not ashamed to admit that the Deepwater Horizon disaster has me seriously saddened and fearful. Even if it is only as bad as we are being told, it is still the worst ecological disaster in the history of Mankind. And that includes Chernobyl. And I'm worried that it may be even many times worse than that.