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I’d like this a lot more if it wasn’t dumping oil into the sea…

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Yeah. The nature devastation kinda takes the fun out of it…

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100,000 tons of crude. Who’s responsible for mopping this around for PR before it finally sinks to the bottom?

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I wouldn’t hold your breath. “People waiting to be saved in the Middle East” is a long list, and I assume the seabirds are low down.

What is a typical rate of actual recovery after an oil spill?

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There’s an even longer list of “people not waiting anymore to be saved in the Middle East”, where entries are usually permanent.

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Just tow the boat out of the environment.

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I don’t think it sinks. I think it floats until it ends up on a coast somewhere.

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I was just thinking of all the tar balls and tar logs and polluted animal life sinking into the abyss, but generally, yea, I think it does just wash up places.

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If it’s like oil spills in the U.S., volunteers with Dawn soap and maybe some of the costs will be felt by the oil company after 25 years of litigation.

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“We’re sorry…”

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Who’s going to try and risk getting sunk by a drone or a missile?

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Hear me out: If it’s on fire it destroys more of the climate and less of the ocean… (not sure if win tho)

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