Comments on: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs, & Other Nightmarish Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill

By: Penny Welker

Penny Welker — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:06:08 +0000

Hey flood mouse I guess if you live and work where you can ride your bike to work I am guessing it is in a big city. Well I work for myself, thank God, and I have to drive a bid truck. But on there other hand I live Ina rural setting, have a large green yard, with large green trees, and grow a large green garden every year. What are you doing to erase your so-called foot print on this earth?

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:10:53 +0000

I have seen documentaries over the last decade filming what many fishermen have been hoisting up in their nets that look pretty scary. Crabs with cancers growing through their shells, etc. It’s been going on for a long time. Those documentaries claim it is from the polluted waters that cause these deformities and cancers. Phosphates from fertilizers, for one thing, are a serious threat that has not been exposed enough.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:52:12 +0000

But these consequences of our own human error and actions are the reasons why we need to look to alternative energy sources, as well as look forward to preserving the enviornment for future generations. Theres already astronomical amounts of overfishing throughout the world, and 90% of the big fish that once existed in the waters are gone. Now that fishing in the Gulf has been affected, it will negatively impact fishing in other waters around the globe.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:47:50 +0000

God forbid our own country would ever report on something scientific that could have debilitating effects on our future. I swear, they dont want people to know anything and its terrible. Now I need to get my news from outside and potentially less credible sources, not saying that Al Zaheer or w/e is any less credible than right winged fox news..but this isnt a political topic. What ever happened to real journalism?

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:42:01 +0000

Paul Stamets, if you have heard of him, or have seen him on the TED talks, has come up with a remarkable way to help curb some of the destruction caused by the oil spill, atleast for the damage the oil has done to the terrestrial life. Using mushrooms and fungi, they can absorb the oil while at the same time creating new life. This is just picking off the top of my head, it was something I watched last year. I am by no means a scientist, an educator of any sort, nor am I a strong writer, so I wont fool you people being pretentious, im merely a 24 year old kid, interested in our world and enviornment and anything to do with science, I just wish i was better educated.

By: doris123

doris123 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:41:11 +0000

Floodmouse is right, we are all a part of this machine. Expecting to have 3 kids, expecting to drive a car, expecting and feeling entitled is a sickness of our culture. Do what you can to liberate yourself and your family from the expectations our culture has imposed on us. Read Derrick Jensen. He speaks the truth.

By: KieranKardKompany

KieranKardKompany — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:02:07 +0000

well, well, well
what do i have here
these sea creatures are turning black…

By: Dave G

Dave G — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:13:52 +0000

I’m surprised nobody has tried to tell us that it is ‘God’s will’ – or an experiment in intelligent design … mutation = an experiment in evolution. For all the millions of deformed crustacea, I bet there are at least one or two that are now better designed … by accident.

By: screw this

screw this — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:32:25 +0000

Enough is enough, BOYCOTT BP!

By: coryy

coryy — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:37:45 +0000

@floodmouse:I would love to know how I’m supposed to carry around 3 kids and bookbags plus my own, on a bike, in winter, when a normal winter gives us 106 of snow? when three kids have to be at 3 different schools (because of age differences, not private schools), within the same hour, all miles apart? And don’t forget the river valley, i’m sure that mile uphill would work off my extra weight in no time…if it weren’t for the broken pelvis that’s still healing and my inability to bear my weight on a bike seat.

Back to the oil spill …anybody see Rachel Maddow discussing this tonight? The complete lack of ANY action on the part of congress to ensure that we can clean up any of these messes? The lack of any progress whatsoever in ways to clean up oil? It’s unbelievable that there has been no new technology, no advances in ways to clean up spills, despite the gulf oil spill being so recent and compelling a reason to push for developing new ways to prevent and treat this sort of thing. There is very little money in it and no legislative requirement, so it just isn’t happening.