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[matthews_world]

We've all been hearing the news reports.

The slick has already spread east to the shores of Pensacola.

Has FEMA done a good job in planning for clean up?

The National Guard and volunteers are being mobilized to help with the clean up.

I've even read online that the government will be contracting headhunting companies to find workers who can earn a decent days wage $10-18 per hour to go down and participate in reclamation of the wetlands there.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-30-oil-cleanup-jobs_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNation-TopStories+(News+-+Nation+-+Top+Stories)

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/lab/


I'm between contracts here stateside and this opportunity is sounding interesting. I personally wasn't able to take part in the Taean oil spill clean up a few years ago and think this would be admirable to take part in.

Anyone else heard anything or considering do this?

[nautilus]

This is massive news but strangely enough nobody's interested on dave's.

maybe its because very few know or care about the environment at all.

Humans. The trash on the planet.

[Globutron]

I've been spending my time reading about it, and I'm not even American.

[nautilus]

[Dev]

The main problem is that whatever environmental laws there are, they're not strictly enforced.

The only way we will stop seeing disasters like this is through public outrage.

Unfortunately, people are more interested in the baseball game.

[Globutron]

[Senior]

[Senior]

[AsiaESLbound]

I think the good to be found in this is oil companies will have to spend mucho dinero cleaning it up which trickles down to many capable able bodied people willing to work, but find themselves underemployed in such a lackluster time. Finding the manpower to clean up isn't going to be problem, but acting in a timely manner to do effective work may prove fatal to the protection of our marine environment in the gulf. The companies and wealthy need to be pouring more into the domestic economy and only anything causing them serious problems to operate is going to sway some trickle down effect that seems to be severely lacking in today's job market and economy. I hope they get more than enough people to work in cleaning it up and are successful in getting the job done.

[Senior]

[AsiaESLbound]

No, it won't mean a net economy improvement, but it will mean temporary jobs for unemployed able bodied people willing to work. You are right, if the spill had never happened, then that money and time would had been spent in other productive ways. Possibly not if just held in the coffers. My theory is that the wealthy are holding the purse strings very tight in this economy and incidents or problems interfering with their operations forces them to invest something domestically which trickles back down to people who need it. In a perfect economy humming right along, broken window theory holds 100% true, but the purse strings at the top are held tight in this economy.The theory holds 100% true if that oil company was going to spend all this clean up money and lost time on domestic oil exploration that now won't happen.

[Kikomom]

The National Audubon Society is looking for volunteers.
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=3400

So is BP, which is bs. Who would work for them for free?
http://www.facebook.com/DeepwaterHorizonResponse?ref=mf

[retorsion]

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[Dev]

One thing you almost never hear regarding a country's dependence on oil is the fact that the consumer shares a lot of the blame.

Greenpeace or whoever should tell people to cut down on their driving to protest the Iraq war and the oil spill. People should try to walk more for shorter trips. Get on a bicycle. Cars are part of the reason people in Western countries are so fat.