BP Oil Spill: Shrimp No Eyes

I realize that most people don't empathize with marine life to the same degree I do. Over time, I've come to accept this fact, in the same way that I accept all the other things about which persons disagree with me: I am correct, because I am awesome, and everyone else is just plain fucking wrong.

It's a coping mechanism.

Regardless of the degree to which you appreciate the wonders of marine life, I think we can probably agree that the BP oil spill causing Gulf Coast Shrimp to evolve-away their eyes is pretty damn fucked up.

article one:

"SCOTT EUSTIS: We have some evidence of deformed shrimp, which is another developmental impact, so that shrimp’s grandmother was exposed to oil while the mother was developing, but it’s the grandchild of the shrimp that was exposed grows up with no eyes."

article two:

The dispersants are known to be mutagenic, a disturbing fact that could be evidenced in the seafood deformities. Shrimp, for example, have a life-cycle short enough that two to three generations have existed since BP’s disaster began, giving the chemicals time to enter the genome.

It is not the case that oil was spilt, some seagulls died, and now we've cleaned it up and we're good. Rather, the shit has entered the ecosystem to such a degree that the fucking shrimp fucking don't fucking have fucking eyes.

BP's oil spill rendered shrimp to be eyeless.

Discussing this in terms of how many dollars we ought to fine them is more than laughable.

BP's oil spill caused a species of animal to lose its eyes.

Fuck if I know how to rationally react to that.