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Actual comment from a fan on Palin's Facebook page: Beth Hartman: From what I hear the earth takes care of it's own natural substances and oil is from the eart
by pinko 17y ago
Actual comment from a fan on Palin's Facebook page:
Beth Hartman: From what I hear the earth takes care of it's own natural substances and oil is from the earth. The chemicals to clean up are more harmful. Ecology takes care of itself. An example, a forest fire. In fact, it recreates better.
- tptacek 17y agoWhy are you reading the commenters on Sarah Palin's Facebook page? Don't you know that's bad for you?
- jacquesm 17y agoIt's scary that voting is a right that comes by just having a certain age.
- TNO 16y agoWe all know that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
- thwarted 17y agoI think this is a misrepresentation of the actual results. Human efforts to clean up underminded the natural bacteria and fungi that consume oil. But it's still a huge, massive mess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill What I find interesting about this is this bit: Despite the extensive cleanup attempts, a study conducted by NOAA determined that as of early 2007 more than 26 thousand U.S. gallons (22,000 imp gal; 98,000 L) of oil remain in the sandy soil of the contaminated shoreline, declining at a rate of less than 4% per year. That it's even measurable as percentage per year seems like it's getting better, by both human and natural means, at a rate faster than if left to its own devices (with my lay understanding, we'd be talking geologic or evolutionary timescales here, right?). Huge messes take a lot of effort and time to clean up.
- TNO 16y agoSo a commenter is ignorant, therefore the owner of the page the comment is on is also ignorant. Nice logic there bud.
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