BP: What Is Wrong? (2010)

Image of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as shot by NASA from space, May 24, 2010. The images shows the peninsula of southern Louisiana where New Orleans is located, with the channels of the Mississippi River clearly visible flowing into the Gulf from the land in the upper left. Slighly lower from center there is a large white swirly object that looks a bit like a cloud but trails off to the east-northeast; this is spilled oil covering the surface of the ocean over hundreds of square miles.

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.

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