BP: What Is Wrong? (2010)

Another video from the archive, this time a five-and-a-half minute routine about the incredible experience of running in to someone who needed explained to them why dumping millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was a pretty bad idea. In a fun bit of irony the “featured image” for this article, which you can also find below, was taken the same day this video was shot, in which I had to explain why the big oil slick in that photo was a bad thing.

If you don’t recognize it, that thing sticking out into the water from the top of the image is southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. The big white thing in the lower center is the oil spill, which you can see covering hundreds of square miles as it drifts off to the northeast.