Here are some photos of the largest oil spill ever (1,450,000), some of them are better than others:
i got these from this website: http://rpitt.eng.ua.edu/Class/EffectsandFates/Module7/Module7.htm, which also has photos from other big oil spills. some of these photos are closer up and show how the oil in the water looks and bubbles up and just sits on top of the water. it's disgusting, and it makes me think of Free Willy 2 when Willy is dying because an oil spill and they just can scrape the oil of of him. That wasn't even real and its horrifying. This oil spill was HUGE, real, and intentional. I think that the environmental impacts of our actions are disregarded in much of our development as nations, but especially in war.
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Throughout this blog, I have been struggling to grasp the concept of environmental warfare. I cannot decide which is worse (if one can even make a comparison of two evils): directly killing a nation's troops and civilians as a tactic of war or destroying the country's land and resources so its people slowly suffer, losing their lives and livelihoods as a result of a loss of food and economic security. It is interesting that environmental warfare is employed both by the foreign enemy, and as I discussed in my post last week, by a nation's own government to maintain power structures. How, then, do we distinguish the enemy? And is there anyway for a people to empower themselves against the intentional degradation of their land?
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