Another Drop In The Ocean

First was the not so very public court case between the people of Ecuador and the oil giants Chevron (Texaco) where they were awarded $9.5 billion for damages to the environment and the people's health, now Chevron has had several executives banned from leaving Brazil following an oil leak. Chevron has attempted to play this down as a small incident, specialist Cleveland Jones from Rio de Janeiro State University described the incident as being "far from the coast and of small volume".
In my view any oil leak is too big.

With oil companies more desperate to seek and secure new sources of oil, the number of offshore drilling sites is on the increase. The delicate eco-webs of our oceans are in the balance and it is with great concern we should all view these acts. People like you or I living in Ecuador have long suffered at the hands of companies in search of ever greater profit margins; cancer, miscarriages and birth defects have become a way of life following the failed clean up and pollution of the oil pits in Ecuador.

We have a duty to ensure the world our children inherit is in a better condition to the one we found it in. In the long run it is us, the humans, that need saving, for as George Carlin once said "the world will be fine, it will be here long after we are gone"