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<blockquote data-quote="OldManfromScene24" data-source="post: 2242413" data-attributes="member: 267703">Okay, the Gulf spill is horrible, should have never happened, and it upsets me. But almost everybody that I&#039;ve talked to about tar balls on the beaches fail to notice the sheets of tar all over the rest of the land. Over 60,000 square miles (about 10% the size of the entire Gulf of Mexico) in the USA alone, where there used to be forests full of plants and animals, is covered by pavement that rarely has more than a couple of small, sickly weeds and some ants living in it.And pavement is just one of the uncountable ways we have destroyed life supporting land and bodies of water one piece at a time. So next time you get worried that the Gulf spill will cause a mass extinction, go down to the local super store parking lot and count the deer and wolves.It might make you feel better about the Gulf, because that is likely to recover quicker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OldManfromScene24, post: 2242413, member: 267703"] Okay, the Gulf spill is horrible, should have never happened, and it upsets me. But almost everybody that I've talked to about tar balls on the beaches fail to notice the sheets of tar all over the rest of the land. Over 60,000 square miles (about 10% the size of the entire Gulf of Mexico) in the USA alone, where there used to be forests full of plants and animals, is covered by pavement that rarely has more than a couple of small, sickly weeds and some ants living in it. And pavement is just one of the uncountable ways we have destroyed life supporting land and bodies of water one piece at a time. So next time you get worried that the Gulf spill will cause a mass extinction, go down to the local super store parking lot and count the deer and wolves. It might make you feel better about the Gulf, because that is likely to recover quicker. [/QUOTE]

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