Why do they have guns out? Is it because the oil is black?
They heard oil and made invasion plans.
So are their guns.
Quite the existential crisis one would think.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill had a total discharge of 4_900_000 barrels = 4.9 MMbbl, 210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m^3^
And BP still exists... We, as a species are a colossal failure.
You think we are a failure ? Say that to the dinosaurs : they had millions of years and never built Rockets to prevent asteroids from destroying them. We did it in just a few thousand years.
I think he just meant that we are a failure to our own ideals, for such a smart species we failed to be responsible or keep these companies accountable. Lets say that dinosaurs had millions of years of existence and we achieved more in thousands of years, but wouldn't it be a shame if our achievements is what led us to our own extinction? Icarus's fall would be nothing in comparison to ours, and that in itself can be considered a failure.
Constructive criticism of our own species is very good ... I don't want it to become a social disease. Young generations have mental issues and anxiety looking toward the future.
Well, I totally agree with you. I somewhat fall into that category as well (younger-ish generation anxious for the future).
I’m a Millennial and I feel sorry for Zoomers and they’re only a few years younger than me.
Those Alphas are fucked if this rapid spiral downward trend continues.
yea.. something like this. We are the smartest on this planet I guess, but not smart enough to punish those responsible for poisoning and destroying the world we live in. Or at least destroy these companies with no possibility for them to revive themselves with different logos and slogans. Why the forgiveness for such acts of greed and no regard for biological life? Those running these companies and the governments that protect them at all cost don't have time to care about you while they count the dollars they earned by taking our human rights away from under our noses.
I used to work in the oilfield and my reaction was also, oh, only 1200 bbls? That amount is pretty small in terms of the spills we saw or heard about locally regularly, however that was in the middle of North Dakota and this is on a beach and ocean marine life which makes this so much worse.
~~no, not in North Dakota ... :
"Authorities in the South American nation of Ecuador have confirmed ..."~~
Edit : Oups ! Sorry for that. Thanks to @Alto@kbin.social for calling this.
Ok @player2@lemmy.world i think I get it this time :
| Name | enviro. | Nb. barrels | bad ? |
|---|---|---|---|
| D.W.Horizon | at sea | 4.9e6 | 1k x😬 |
| Ecuador | beach | 1.2e3 | 😑 |
| N.Dakota | on land | 1.2e3 | 🙄 |
I believe they were referring to the spills they had personally seen/heard about.
Aside from actually hurting animals, a beach spill is really bad optics / PR. I know it won't really impact the earth as a whole, natural oil seeps let lots of oil into the ocean every day, but beach spills make headlines.
1,200 barrels is about 2,040 MWh.
4.9 million is 8.3 million MWh.
1 MWh can power a house for about a month or toast 89,000 slices of bread.
Possibly first time in my life I've seen someone use _ instead of , in number format.
Decimal_separator (at wikipedia)
I would put a non-breaking space but I don't know how to write a non-breaking space in Lemmy 😌
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