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Message: <blockquote data-quote="longbow" data-source="post: 1840916" data-attributes="member: 77303">I saw similar footage tonight on PBS. It is absolutely heartbreaking. I wish there was something concrete I could do with this sadness and its attendant rage.On the newscast I saw, they said there are 5000 oil platforms in the Gulf, and oil accounts for 17% of Louisiana's economy. Much of the discussion was given over to how this economic activity could be sustained and how even fishermen and others directly impacted by the spill are worried that drilling might be curtailed. Seems like even a disaster of this magnitude will not change much. I wish all the folks who think off shore oil production is such a dandy idea could spend just one day completely covered in this thick, toxic, stinking, evil material. Wait: Maybe a month or two.We have given the earth to the internal combustion engine and the oil to run it. Not to mention our unyielding addiction to power. Oil may well yet be our collective doom.</blockquote>