WHILE YOU WERE IGNORING: As we pontificate and hem and haw about the Gulf of Mexico oil “disaster”, there is a recurring, ongoing, and seemingly never-ending oil disaster in Nigeria that no one gives two shits about. Food sources and livelihoods are being quietly destroyed, but it’s Africa so who cares. Read this: [New York Times]
The World’s True Oil Spill Calamity
06/17/2010 by B C
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