Nice going China.

[Telume]

You may have fucked up one of the largest oceanic ecosystems in the world, REAL NICE.

http://www.news.pushpi.com/2010/04/alert-over-barrier-reef-oil-leak.htm

Especially since the Great Barrier Reef is protected.

[Blademaster]

Newsflash: China doesn't give a fuck about Australia or its wildlife. The article itself shows more concern over the frigging OIL than the reef, which is barely mentioned.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Oh yes what a waste of oil.

[Drago]

Stay off my reef, damn Chinamen. :angry:

[RedStarWarrior]

Australia sucks anyway. Why is China even bothering?

[Drago]

Rich coming from a guy from Virginia. What did you ever offer? Michael Vick?

[Asilynne]

I apologise for what my fellow Virginian has said and I will say that Australia is a beautiful country with sexy men and should be preserved *salutes*

Also I hate how China seems to not care about destroying something so beautiful T.T

[Telume]

Great Barrier Reef is one of the largest if not the largest reefs in the world, so yeah, that gets messed up, I'd say it'd be a pretty big blow ecologically speaking.

[abunaidesu]

Rich coming from a guy from Virginia. What did you ever offer? Michael Vick?

hahahaha

[DivineAll]

Even I feel ashamed at China, and I'm Chinese.

[Roy Karrde]

And why again can't we have shipping routes that these tankers must follow? I mean it isn't as if this part of the Reef just sprung up over night... right?

[Heald]

The tanker was meant to be following a route...it just apparently deviated about 150km off the route. Yea...

[Telume]

And why again can't we have shipping routes that these tankers must follow? I mean it isn't as if this part of the Reef just sprung up over night... right?

People are stupid 'nuff said.

[Heald]

Of course if we could wean the planet off its addiction to an expensive, wasteful, polluting toxic chemical, we wouldn't need to ship tonnes of the stuff around the planet through delicate ecosystems in the first place.

Just saying.

[MToolen]

Of course if we could wean the planet off its addiction to an expensive, wasteful, polluting toxic chemical, we wouldn't need to ship tonnes of the stuff around the planet through delicate ecosystems in the first place.

Just saying.

Like you said, it's an addiction. And it's an ever-growing addiction, as more and more people get automobiles and expand their horizons. I wouldn't be able to have my current lifestyle (wife working 1mi north, me at school 5mi south) without a car for each person in my family. An addiction like this would be hard to quit cold turkey and the alternatives just haven't caught up just yet.

Here's to hoping, though. I'm surprised the media hasn't gone all Exxon-Valdez on this yet.

[Heald]

It's a vicious cycle. Alternatives aren't ready because we've still got enough oil, and we're using oil because alternatives aren't ready.

I'm hoping we'll have hydrogen cars in 10 years.