I'm not surprised that people don't give a ****. We've grown to accept the fact that we humanoids have more or less decided that life w/o the regular traffic of toxic substances is just not worth living.

The facts are pretty obvious to me. The ability of the planet to support life is diminishing. It will continue to diminish as human numbers increase and our willingness to use any and all toxic substances that give us a temporary advantage continues. These fantasies of finding another planet to live on are beyond belief. What utter crap. Ain't going to happen. And until we learn how to be prosperous w/o trashing this one, what's the point anyway? We'd trash that one sooner than later.

This incident has poked some serious holes in the presumed first rate effectiveness of the Coast Guard. The flat-footed nature of the response to this is shocking. This is exactly the kind of crap that is likely to happen with the sort of large ship traffic in this bay and a rapid deployment of booms could have nipped a lot of this in the bud.

Didn't happen.

All this anxiety about Dubai buying one of our ports, or part of one anyway, check it out folks, we've already ceded major parts of the sovereignty of our ports to Chinese ship crews. We used to have tugs escort ships in and out of harbor. Too expensive, I reckon.

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