Naomi Klein reports for The Nation on scientists who continue to find BP's oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Her report illuminates BP's attempts to hide the oil while also highlighting how we as a society deal with environmental destruction.
From the report: "For the scientists aboard the WeatherBird II, the recasting of the Deepwater Horizon spill as a good-news story about a disaster averted has not been easy to watch. Over the past seven months, they, along with a small group of similarly focused oceanographers from other universities, have logged dozens of weeks at sea in cramped research vessels, carefully measuring and monitoring the spill's impact on the delicate and little-understood ecology of the deep ocean." |