BP and I can't sleep..

This is the plan to contain the massive amounts of oil spilling into the Gulf Of Mexico.

It has been two months since this thing blew and to say this is an environmental disaster is a vast understatement. Not only has it contaminated miles of land and water,sea life ect It has put many more people out of work,possibly for the rest of their life. At least most of the fishermen that have lost their jobs will not be making their living doing that anymore. The food source that is tainted and the health of the people in the region living there and helping with the cleanup is compromised.

It is also very likely that this oil will make its way around the coast of Florida and start to come up the East coast of America. Contaminating land and more sea life... Can you even wrap your heads around this people?? Life as we have known it has been changed forever. I compare this to the dropping of the bomb in Hiroshima or the Nuclear accident in Chernobyl.

Seriously,It is that bad. I am beyond sick about this. Our children and their children will never know the Gulf the way it was before this leak,never!

My sister who lives in Florida has been unable to sleep more than 4 hour stretches since this happened.STRESS. She was able to smell the oil in the air within a week of the accident. Once they started burning it she said the stench was sickening. Lately the gulf winds have shifted and taken the smell away from the area and given them a break, for now.

 I am starting to feel like we are all in one of those Hollywood disaster movies.Only the price of this admission is way more than we can afford and the movie doesn't seem to want to end.

The smartest most intelligent species on the planet?? Really? How do we ever make this up to all the life we have killed ,the birds,the fish,the shrimp,the whales on and on. We can't make it up,plain and simple. I am feeling like we are a cancer that consumes everything in its path. We use up all the resources available. We will start wars to get them we will sacrifice people in our quest for more resources.

And we want to know who will pay? Make BP pay! everyone yells. BP,its all their fault! No it really isn't ALL their fault. We can all share in this . We knew this day would come didn't we? Were we not warned something like this could happen? Haven't they been saying we need to find alternate energy sources?

The Americans,we live large,we consume ,we waste. Just ask the world.

Lessons come hard sometimes. And this is the biggest one we have had in a long long time. Will we listen this time ? Will we change our ways? Frankly I don't think we will. Maybe its too late,maybe not. I'm not a scientist,but I'm not stupid either. Put a stop for 6 months on deep shore drilling they say. SIX MONTHS?!

It would cost too much in job losses to stop any longer...seriously?

I am ashamed of us. Plain and simple. That is how I feel,ashamed for our greed,stupidity,and wastefulness.Shame.