There's No Place Like Home?: What if the Oil Spill Was in Your Backyard?

                                   Aerial View May 2010   Photo:  NASA Goddard Photo and Video


Courtesy of PBS NewsHour

The oil spill in the gulf seems absolutely unreal to me.  I know the link below definitely helped me to understand the spatial impact of the spill. Since I am a visual learner, this really drives home the point! It is our responsibility to be alarmed/educated/inspired- even if it is not in our own backyard.

    How far would the damage reach, if the spill was in your backyard?? (click here to see map, set it to your home town...)


 
A pair of Brown Pelicans, covered in oil, sit on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)