Slashdot Mirror
'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Coral
sciencehabit writes "The massive oil spill that inundated the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010 severely damaged deep-sea corals more than 11 kilometers from the well site, a sea-floor survey conducted within weeks of the spill reveals. At one site, which hadn't been visited before but had been right in the path of a submerged 100-meter-thick oil plume from the spill, researchers found a variety of corals — most of them belonging to a type of colonial coral commonly known as sea fans — on a 10-meter-by-12-meter outcrop of rock. Many of the corals were partially or completely covered with a brown, fluffy substance that one team member variously calls 'frothy gunk,' 'goop,' and 'snot.'"
The beauty of nature destroyed because people value business and cheap energy above all else.
So what? Business and cheap energy are pretty damn valuable which is why we invest so heavily in them. Beauty of nature? Not so much, but it gets a lot of investment anyway. I see no issue with the priorities of modern society.
needs to be eliminated not only for energy policy, but also for air quality and other environmental reasons.
ll you need to do is come up with something better.