RE: Noteworthy News
October 5, 2021 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2021 at 1:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Coastal towns have been committing seppuku on the issue of oil pollution.
Let's take my beloved gulf coast as an example. Say we completely transition off of fossil fuels and the future beats on mostly as before otherwise. Will that recoup the financial loss from our disastrous flirtation with offshore rigs? No it will not. The damage is done, the shelves and estuaries are permanently damaged. The loss of revenue is exponentially multiplicative and generational. It's not physically possible to restore tampa bay. We've tried. I can never take my kids out into the murder holes for fun or dinner, there's no point walking a net through the rip. The dolphin boats have to work harder..a plexi wall built to view one of the most important the estuaries in the entire world...underwater... now stares at a shifting sand bottom full of sludge from the nearby cruise port. To the point they boarded it up last I was there and it wouldn't surprise me if they've just demo'd it since.
No idea why anyone would want to stop there anymore...but then it dawns on you. People get on cruise ships in the bay to -leave-...to go someplace with something worth seeing.
-and then, they became plague ships.......
Let's take my beloved gulf coast as an example. Say we completely transition off of fossil fuels and the future beats on mostly as before otherwise. Will that recoup the financial loss from our disastrous flirtation with offshore rigs? No it will not. The damage is done, the shelves and estuaries are permanently damaged. The loss of revenue is exponentially multiplicative and generational. It's not physically possible to restore tampa bay. We've tried. I can never take my kids out into the murder holes for fun or dinner, there's no point walking a net through the rip. The dolphin boats have to work harder..a plexi wall built to view one of the most important the estuaries in the entire world...underwater... now stares at a shifting sand bottom full of sludge from the nearby cruise port. To the point they boarded it up last I was there and it wouldn't surprise me if they've just demo'd it since.
No idea why anyone would want to stop there anymore...but then it dawns on you. People get on cruise ships in the bay to -leave-...to go someplace with something worth seeing.
-and then, they became plague ships.......
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