top kill: a 30 second silent animation from the folk who are doing this showing what's supposed to happen:
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yeah, i live next to a salt marsh. i spend way too much of my time taking it in. i think that's one reason why this is so deeply upsetting. i'm sure it is to alot of people for lots of reasons, but i haven't really had a sense of a salt marsh before i moved here and the idea of this combination of misfortunate negligence greed stupidity and corruption resulting in at the least contamination and at worst destruction of miles of fragile coastal ecosystems...i dunno...kinda makes me want to take the faces of alot of those drill baby drill people and rub them in tar balls. or maybe worse just make them look, take it in. like this but live:
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