June 18, 2010

Priorities

To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite as bad as they seem, but I keep worrying that in fact they're much, much worse. To try to make sense of this part of the story I turned to Dr. Jeffrey Short, one of the world's top experts on the environmental effects of oil. It was very kind of Jeff to take time in the midst of the crisis to talk with me — I really appreciate it. Total runtime half an hour. God forgive us!