News moves slowly out of Africa, especially when it has to worm it's way past corrupt governments, industry thugs, local media bumpkins, and a disinterested western media and public. It is now reported from Nov. 2008, a Shell oil spill in the Niger Delta flooded a swamp with oil, displacing 65,000 people who lived in, near by, or dependent upon the swamp for food and material. The gulf oil spill did not displace more than a few, the losses were greater due to our bloated view of our self worth, but 69,000 refugees, thats a corporation caused hurricane or tsunami.
Try, try to conserve fuel, these problems are because of the market we piss our wealth into, and that too shall pass.
You'd think BP might have tried to get this story out.
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