WTFPeople&Oil

If you have watched the news or been in this world AT ALL for the past few months, you know about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is STILL gushing into the gulf at a rate of thousands of barrels a day, meanwhile the people who rely on the Gulf for their entire livelihoods are now unemployed and the ecosystem is completely obliterated. This is no joke. It's an ongoing crisis, and my impression was that people all over the US cared about it.

Imagine my surprise when I saw a CNN poll that asked the following: Would you donate time or money to help fight the Gulf oil disaster?

As I am posting this, the answers are as follows:

Yes
51%
108678
No
49%
102674

Umm...Are you joking? 49% of Americans would not donate time OR money to help fight this? I can understand time. But come on. After the earthquake in Haiti, America rallied to help that country. We even had a celebrity phoneathon. All we have for this is Kevin Costner making up science and James Cameron making underwater robots. We should be looking out for our people and animals on the coast and be treating this crisis with the same urgency. This isn't a little problem and it's going to take everyone's participation to fix it whether you live in the Gulf area or on a farm somewhere in Nebraska.

Sorry. Done ranting. But what do you think?