Ocean Depth

So it has been 50  days since the oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico which brought to my mind the 50th posting I ever did for this blog.  I wrote about how deep the ocean is and my thoughts on the sea creatures that live there:

There are sea creatures that live in the depths of the ocean that are born, live their lives and die and never know that they are in the ocean. Their world is the water. They don’t know there is a surface or what air is or the sun or clouds or moon or stars. They will live their whole lives never knowing anything about the world outside the ocean.

We don’t know these creatures. We have barely begun documenting the creatures that live in the depths of the ocean. But we do know that they are necessary to keep our ecosystem balanced. They play a vital role in the life of the planet. We don’t know about them and they don’t know about us. Yet their very existence is threatened by how we live on this earth. Our waste, pollution and bad habits will eventually affect them. Maybe not today, tomorrow, next week or even next year. But eventually the way we treat the oceans will affect their lives.

So these creatures that don’t even know we exist or even what land is can have their existence altered by us. They are just swimming and eating and procreating to their heart’s content and some ship sinks and lands on them spewing it’s filthy oil and other contaminants into their world. That’s just one example. I won’t even get into the stuff we dump in the ocean or how sonar effects them.

Suffice to say, just because we don’t know what lives at the depths of the ocean doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be extremely careful about taking care not to affect their lives. They are God’s creatures too. Besides, why tick off something that may be big and scary and could come up from the depths and eat New York City whole?? Why chance it??  (From the April 31, 2009 posting entitled Number 50!.)

There was an article on CNN.com today that was co-written by Chevy and Jayni  Chase.  You can see it here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/08/chase.oceans.day/index.html?hpt=T2 It goes into much more detail and takes a more serious tone than I did but is also a discussion on the ocean and our lack of understanding about it. Please read it if you get a chance.

This world of ours is a delicately balanced ecosystem that needs to be treated with gentle care. BP is not doing that.  We aren’t doing that because we are letting BP get away with not doing it. I’ve had enough of BP and their grand experiments and their failures.  End it now.  Dismantle the company.  Sell the company and use the proceeds to plug the damn hole and clean up this mess.  They are destroying our planet and we are standing by and watching them do it.  50 days is long enough.  It needs to end now.