Worth 1,000 words

Photographer John L. Wathen flew over the Gulf Coast and recorded the following: We hear numbers but sometimes, it takes something like this ten minute film to make us viscerally "grok" the true extent of the damage. That we are not going all-out for recovery is one of the worst political and environmental decisions ever. The Gulf is the nursery of a very large ecosystem -- the coastal marshes are the breeding ground for many of the ocean going fish. From the BP Oil Spill website:

Video: The Gulf of Mexico Death Throes
I�ve avoided pictures and video of struggling wildlife, but after being on the coast all week and returning home, I am made aware just how little people outside the coast understand the complete and utter devastation that is taking place right in our own country. If they did I hope that every American would stand up and demand more from their representatives � demand that the federal government admit that the entire Gulf of Mexico is in its own death throes and demand they finally stop putting profit above our people, wildlife and environment. I know of no other way to say we are sitting idly by, as our world dies around us. And I mean �death� in the most literal sense possible.

Have we all become so complacent, so apathetic that we no longer regard nature, life� human life, with enough regard to fight for it? What more must it take to outrage this nation??

Many thanks to Doug Ross for the link.