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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This one won’t come close to the damage of the Exxon Valdez spill.

Boru

Yes certainly smaller ,but still damage none the less. It isn't just going to affect sea life and birds, but businesses too. Since nobody can go on the beach or swim or surf all those beach businesses are going to suffer. Cleanup, according to HLN is only about 3%. It is going to take a while. Pipe inspectors suspect a boat anchor gashed the line.

You seem to have a lot of trouble remembering the things you said:

This spill reminds me of the famous Exxon Valdez event in 1989. Not ship vs pipe, but amount of damage.

(Bold mine)

You might want to get that checked out.

Boru

[Brian37]

Yes certainly smaller ,but still damage none the less. It isn't just going to affect sea life and birds, but businesses too. Since nobody can go on the beach or swim or surf all those beach businesses are going to suffer. Cleanup, according to HLN is only about 3%. It is going to take a while. Pipe inspectors suspect a boat anchor gashed the line.

You seem to have a lot of trouble remembering the things you said:

This spill reminds me of the famous Exxon Valdez event in 1989. Not ship vs pipe, but amount of damage.

(Bold mine)

You might want to get that checked out.

Boru

I know what I said. You take everything I say out of context. You don't get to put thoughts in my head that are not there.

Now if you want to argue that I didn't chose my words wisely, to make it clear enough, that would be a better argument.

My point was that long term, every spill hurts and has a collective effect on our planet. So yes, this current spill reminds me of the Exxon spill because of the attention both got. Just like hearing about a local shooting where only 1 person dies, vs a mass shooting. Sometimes a single shooting gets lots of attention. Single shootings or mass shootings are still gun violence. A spill is a spill regardless of amount, and both add up over time. 

The more our species exploits the planet and the bigger we get as a population and the more we pollute, the damage adds up over time. I hate smokers whom throw their butts on the ground thinking one butt isn't going to hurt the environment. So to me big or small, it all still adds up over time.

[Spongebob]

Beachfront property in California returned to the decedents of black family after being taken from them a century ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...california

This is just the hint of the tip of the iceberg.  This was common practice historically and trillions of dollars worth of property and opportunities were stolen from black owners in the 20th century through legal means and intimidation.

[Brian37]

https://www.thenation.com/article/enviro...entencing/

Chevron bought judge puts lawyer in jail on trumped up charges. Our Justice system is truly screwed up.

Big oil loves bullying the world? Who would have thought? Unfortunately nothing new. Big tobacco did that too. 

It is sad that humans have had solar energy and electric car technology as early as the 1920s and we would not be in this climate mess today if we had worked on getting to that back then. 

Humans, while we can be quite creative in inventing things to improve quality of life, at the same time, put profit over pragmatism and are far too often short term thinkers when it comes to profit. Sometimes what we invent or use as humans is not good for us.

[Brian37]

The salmon were recently cooking in the streams.  Someone definitely needs to crank the temp down a few degrees.  Salmon is expensive.

There's actually a really intricate proposal about normalizing the qualifiers between east and west coast through infrastructure.  What do you think, should we look to solve the east costs problems by exploiting their vulnerabilities as solutions to the west coasts problems, and vv?

Unfortunately, globally, our species will always be tribal, and for most, our species cannot grasp the fact that our planet(globe) is all inner connected. America's problems are not just local. Ultimately our species needs to face we are the current ultimate invasive species. Until humans face the fact we are not an apex, but merely one species among all life, we will continue to focus on our own tribalism. 

The issue isn't the price of Salmon, or gas for that matter. The issue is humans are increasingly becoming a victim of our own success. 

I especially hate pro birthers. Just like guns, I never get a good answer as to how much would be enough. 50 billion guns, 50 billion humans. Just like any glass, it can only hold so much liquid before it overflows. 

So to answer your Salmon question, we are, as humans, responsible for the conditions we create.

[onlinebiker]

Beachfront property in California returned to the decedents of black family after being taken from them a century ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...california

This is just the hint of the tip of the iceberg.  This was common practice historically and trillions of dollars worth of property and opportunities were stolen from black owners in the 20th century through legal means and intimidation.

Just in time for a major oil spill....


Wonder who is going to get stuck with the cleanup?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Beachfront property in California returned to the decedents of black family after being taken from them a century ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...california

This is just the hint of the tip of the iceberg.  This was common practice historically and trillions of dollars worth of property and opportunities were stolen from black owners in the 20th century through legal means and intimidation.

Just in time for a major oil spill....


Wonder who is going to get stuck with the cleanup?

Amplify Energy Corp will get stuck with the cleanup. Owners of private property affected by oil spills are never, EVER liable for cost of cleanup or for economic damages.

Boru

[Brian37]

Beachfront property in California returned to the decedents of black family after being taken from them a century ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...california

This is just the hint of the tip of the iceberg.  This was common practice historically and trillions of dollars worth of property and opportunities were stolen from black owners in the 20th century through legal means and intimidation.

Just in time for a major oil spill....


Wonder who is going to get stuck with the cleanup?

Wow, and you think gun violence is different?

More oil, more opportunity for spills. More guns, more opportunity for violence. 

Maybe humans need less oil and less guns? 

But to be somewhat fair to you, I think our species needs to stop stupidly think we can speed up the pace of consumption and stupidly think we can indefinitely explode our species population. 

PACE is the problem. Humans are going too fast for our planet to absorb the things we do. 

There is a reason there are building codes for businesses, say like bars, where the fire martials denote to the business owner the capacity level of such businesses. Laws are not, or should I argue, should not denote oppressing anyone. 

I don't see smoking being banned worldwide ever. I also do not see oil being outlawed, because it is also used to make products not having to do with burning. But humans should not ignore that the fact the bigger we get, as a population, the more we fight over resources, and the planet doesn't give a shit about our species.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Why the fuck are you trying to bring guns into this?? This isn’t a gun topic, this isn’t a gun control topic, this isn’t a gun violence topic.

OLB was saying, now that Manhattan Beach has been returned to its rightful owners, they might be liable for the costs of cleaning up the Huntington Beach oil spill. He was wrong, but he never mentioned guns. If you want to rant about guns, there are plenty of threads where you can do that, without trying to derail this one.

Boru

[Brian37]

Why the fuck are you trying to bring guns into this??

Boru

Overall bad use of logic regardless of topic.

Just now as you read this, and keep in mind you , you, not me, linked a link about the history of oil spills. That same ignorance of the public worrying  more about short term gas prices, ignores the long term damage burning fossil fuels is doing to our planet. In the same way that "out of my cold dead hands" is ignoring that more guns do not make society safer. 

Oil and guns are no different than the bad marketing of tobacco. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pol...t-n1280920