Saturday, June 5, 2010

BP Oil Disaster Over Lebanon


If It Was My Home (IIWMH) is a website with a relatively simple concept, it allows the user to visualize the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico over their own homes.

Of course in Lebanon, we're no strangers to the oil along our coasts:

A layer of crude oil covers the Ramlet el-Beida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon. Much of Lebanon's coastline is now awash with crude oil after an Israeli air strike on a power plant sent 15,000 tons (13,600 metric tons) of oil leaking into the Mediterranean. (via National Geographic News)

Then again, a site like IIWMH, and a visual graphic such as that above, really help put things in perspective:

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