Will the BP Oil Disaster be our last?

I’ve been keeping my head buried in the sand lately over the oil spill disaster. Every time I peek out, my heart feels like it might break and I stick my head back into its hidey hole again. Last night, right before falling asleep I heard on the news that operation Top Kill was a failure, that a solution would not be arriving until August. August?? What about the millions of gallons of oil filling our oceans a day? How can you remediate the loss of life in an entire gulf, about to spread to oceans? How is money or beach clean-up equal to the destruction of millions of fish, mammals, birds, ecosystems, communities and job loss? Where are the billions of BP profit from last quarter to aid in prevention or in “what if” protocols? I can’t be the only person wanting these concerns addressed.
The plethora of news articles skirt these hard questions and downplay the daily and long term destruction of marine life. Do we really need a report 6 months from now to tell us that billions of gallons of oil will/did have devastating effects at all depths of the ocean and all ocean life and coastal communities? Perhaps they (oil companies, government, news) think we don’t care? Or that we couldn’t possibly understand? Or that this is old news because it didn’t happen last hour. How about, “Last hour 2,000,000 fish and sea birds died along with pristine coral reefs and fishing habitat, stay tuned for next hour’s update!” or “It’s a sad day for the world and is inhabitants as the oil to water ratio has exceeded viability for life and is continuing to pollute our fresh waterways. No seafood tonight or ever again.”
Why have the Coast Guard or NOAA or some other government agency not been involved in initial oil dispersement remedies that BP employed? This “remedy” only served to increase the devastation by adding toxic chemicals that break down the oil into smaller particles easier to digest by wildlife? How was that allowed to happen? Aren’t there rules for safeguarding our wildlife? For drilling oil? Why do we have these government agencies if not for this very situation? Oh, that’s right, we DON’T HAVE a national or international agency to protect or oversee the protection of our ocean and marine life. Only the Marine Protection Agency (MPA.gov) that aims to protect an extremely small percentage of US coastal habitats. Do marine life know to stay within the boundaries of these protected zones? Over 50 MPA’s (http://mpa.gov/pdf/helpful-resources/horizon_spill_mpas_5.4.2010.pdf) are within proximity of the BP oil spill. A better question: why was an oil drilling platform allowed within close proximity to over 50 protected zones? That’s protection for you. Have you heard from the MPA in all the press? Have they stood up for the wildlife? We have more regulations for shipping rights of way, collision avoidance laws than we have protection for ocean waters and inhabitants. Why do You think this is being hushed? If this was war time, this amount of loss of human life would result in revolt, or uprising or likened to a genocide!
This is a global crisis that threatens the entire ocean system, fresh water too and all coastlines and ocean species. Why aren’t Universities, ThinkTanks and oil drilling teams around the world working on this with utmost urgency? Why is President Obama telling us everything is being handled without giving details of how?
How is it that BP is still being allowed to handle this crisis? They fucked up and we as a planet must stand up and say, “No.” No more hiding, no more excuses, no more waiting for months for a possible solution, no more putting our planet and all its inhabits at risk to drill for oil, no more oil, no more wait till it breaks policies then hush it up, no more hiding from the true cost of having combustable engines.
Let’s come together people. If we are the sentient beings then why do we keep killing every living thing in the name of progress and profit? Let’s smarten up and use our brains and compassion and creativity to create systems that work for all life on the planet. Let this crisis be the straw. Do something!