Saturday, June 5, 2010

BP's tally of dead birds thus far


As of a couple of days ago, this is the official count of how many birds BP has killed in the last month and a half:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported 522 dead birds — at least 38 of them oiled — along the Gulf coast states, and more than 80 oiled birds have been rescued. It's not clear exactly how many of the deaths can be attributed to the spill.

I'm going to go ahead and say all of them, plus many more that will never be found.

Of course, that figure is buried in the bottom of a BP oil hole article, cause no one cares about that stuff nearly as much.

Again, I will say that nothing anyone got from that fucking hole in the bottom of the ocean was ever worth the life of one bird, fish, dolphin, turtle or anything else they have killed and have yet to kill through their bottomless greed and utter lack of regard for whatever "safety" can be assured aboard something as destructive and ruinous as a petroleum extraction platform.

I wish people would stop worshipping perceived "rights" of capital in this country and just go ahead and fucking burn down everything BP and its rapacious managers own.

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