Breton National Wildlife Refuge no refuge for
corporate greed
Cyberterra, 8 May 2010 — BBC
News reports that oil from the massive slick in the Gulf of
Mexico has
started washing ashore on an island chain off the coast of Louisiana.
Pelicans and other birds covered in oil have already been found on the
uninhabited Chandeleur islands, which are part of the Breton National
Wildlife Refuge.
It seems readily apparent that while wildlife refuges may keep humans
out from an area, the greater environmental damage caused by the Deepwater
Horizon
oil
spill, which was not caused by individual or even group
human activity, but by corporate greed, remains as unstoppable as
it has ever been.
This spill — it is not really a "spill" either — is expected to eclipse
the 1989 Exxon
Valdez oil spill as the worst US oil disaster in history.
Actually, this oil disaster is so bad that not only it will cause
damage to the habitat of hundreds of bird species, but in all
likelihood it will also damage the Gulf of Mexico fishing industry and
tourism industry. Single fishermen, or even groups of fishermen, could
have never caused such environmental and socioeconomic damage, yet all
wildlife refuges are designed to keep decent human beings out, as if
human beings were the cause of most environmental damage, not greedy
corporations and the reach of their economic tentacles.
