A Shift in Perspective
Listening to the Coastal Commission investigating the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf was an extended heartbreak. Hour after hour, decent, hard-working people whose lives were intimately involved with nature testified to catastrophic, unrecoverable losses due to the oil. The scale of their suffering made it understandable that the emphasis in the news has been on the shore-line and the consequences to tourism and scenic beauty. Perhaps it is too painful to consider what happens to the whales, dolphins, porpoises, turtles, corals and krill out at sea, but this framing is a form of self-induced myopia which will become painfully clear only when the entire ocean has been rendered a dead-zone.
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