I asked myself….. that more people aren’t calling and emailing about the spill? Why aren’t people in the streets about this? I think there are a few possible reasons:

– the spill is perceived as a local, albeit large, disaster that wont touch you if you are not in Alabama, Florida, Georgia or Louisiana (this one is huge I think)

– people feel completely helpless have no clue what to do and are overwhelmed. Read” If you don’t know about it you don’t have to suffer. As in don’t show me the horse slaughter pictures please. (this is huge too)

– people have not yet quite figured out that most of the media are handmaidens for BP and every other corporation out there, ie,  they are soulless liars.

– no one has taken the time (it is sloggy work) to read the posts, follow the links and find out the truth behind this behemoth

– most people are not cursed as I am with the quadruple whammy of being a biologist, an intuitive, a former wildlife rehabilitator and a toxic expert

Did I leave anythng out?……

For pictures of the oil hitting the wetlands, photos BP does not want you to see, go here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/healthygulf/sets/72157624154799576/show/

So then I asked myself how… How can I possibly write something that will get through, not alienate….but still tell the truth as I see it. I decided to tell you how I have been feeling.

I am bereft- Those animals in the Gulf they are my babies. I didn’t have any babies… all the animals on earth are my babies. And BP just murdered about a trillion of them, if you add in the the shrimp and coral and microbes that sustain all life in water and on land. I think about all the sperm whales, dolphins, whale sharks, dead at the bottom of the gulf, killed by the deadly toxin Corexit that EPA refused to stop BP from spraying. The oil didn’t kill everything the Corexit did  it and BP made sure it all sank to the bottom so you wont see or know that all those animals are DEAD now. I think about them dying from poison, suffocating, sick, like the workers who are coming into the hospitals now….and I start crying and I cant stop…can not stop.  When I see the pelicans so loaded with oil they cant fly or hear of birds mobbing a pile of dying fish, starving for food because all the fish are dying or gone, and know the birds will die too because those fish are toxic, I start crying and I cant stop. When I see the oil in the marshes 65 miles long  and 12 miles deep and expanding as I write, and the birds coated, their eggs coated, the fish coated, I start crying and cant stop.

I have been so upset that I cant work well. I spend a lot of time researching trying to find why this happened and how to stop it. Trying to find out how bad it is. What I found out made me cry even more… I dont know if I can  stand to see ecosystem after ecosystem, beautiful animal after beautiful animal, species after species MURDERED.

I am not sure what to do… I can only pass on to you what I have discovered and what I think we have to do. I am still waiting for people who want to help with the facebook site, with activism…if you want me to I will tell you ideas for what to do. So far I only have solidly three  people coming forward of all the people I have emailed, facebooked.  One of the people who is helping said her friends are shunning her now and her partner wants her to stop thinking about the oil spill. Right…..

Here is why that is not an option:

There may well be two leaks, one far larger and at a greater depth. Estimates I trust put the volume  of oil gushing at 4 million gallons per day. This oil could have been sucked up from day one by oil tankers (the smaller ones can get into the gulf no problems) but BP and the US government have done nothing to clean up this oil NOTHING. Is is as if they want the oil to spew and spew.EPA knew Corexit was DEADLY and let BP put a million gallons of it into the ocean.  Corexit is toxic: it causes red blood cells to collapse, wrecks your kidneys and lungs, and kills you. It kills all aquatic life at very low levels,  and robs the oxygen out of the water. It is being evaporated as we speak and will rain down on all of the east including Canada,according to a link going around Russian scientists are predicting dire things for the east coast of North America.No one is doing anything… just a bunch of headless chickens ……. and the US government stands by … knowing that tankers could help, knowing the Corexit will kill the planet… and does nothing. It is Katrina and Chernobyl to the power of 100 . This could kill our planet. Right now there is no end in sight for this leak and the gulf is black with oil.

We need to force our government to take over, get tankers to the gulf now and use whatever  innovative ways can be tried to remediate the coastline and somehow detoxify the corexit detoxify This has to happen  NOW.

It does not help that this event is one of the alleged Hopi prophecies….

Someone posted me the other day on the facebook site (Gulf Oil Disaster Support Circles) and said, “Glad you got your second wind Marta, You are a warrior.”  

I guess I am….. want to join me?

You can go to a protest, start a protest, write letters to the editor, find out how to get to famous people who might get on the press and tell them to speak up (demand tankers and remediation of the oil and toxins…that’s what we need more than anything), call your congress people, form a support circle.

If youare on facebook join me there at – Gulf Oil Disaster Support Circles