160. The Gulf Disaster

She said the gulf disaster wasn’t a big . “How can you say that?” he asked. “Millions gallons of oil are pouring into the ocean.” said it was a big ocean. The oil was a drop in the bucket. “Besides, oil water are natural,” she said, “so they can along with each other.” He agreed that oil water are natural. He said that people are , too. Does that mean that oil and people get along with each other? Would she drink ounce of oil? Would she swim in oily ? “Of course not,” she said. He said that were swimming in oily water. Seabirds were eating fish. “But they’re animals,” she said. “They adapt these things.” He said dead fish were lying beaches. Dead birds were lying on beaches. “That’s adapting,” he said. “That’s dying.”