The NRDC caught up with Actor Ryan Reynolds in New Orleans last week and produced the video below. It covers Ryan's thoughts on the current situation in New Orleans in the wake of the gulf oil spill.
He also contributed as a guest blogger on the NRDC site onearth, stating:
You don't have to make a personal trip to the Gulf of Mexico to realize the BP disaster has blown the cover off a subject some would prefer to keep quiet: the ongoing damage inflicted by our addiction to oil.
When you see images of blackened beaches, grounded fishermen, and toxic dispersants in the water, you can't pretend that it only costs $35 to fill your gas tank.
There are hidden costs in every drop of oil...
You can read his full post here.
Another recent contributor to the onearth site was 350 founder, Bill McKibben. His post covering the role of activism and politics in the wake of the gulf spill is also well worth a read. You can check that post out here.
Here is a taste of what you will find...
The BP spill and its aftermath were a slap in the face of the environmental movement in so many ways. You would have thought the most visible ecological tragedy of our time might have led our government to take real action against our worst problems. Instead, the same week that the well was finally capped the Senate punted on doing anything -- anything -- about climate change.
So, for those of us on the green side of things, there’s never been a better moment to sit back and say: Are we doing something wrong? We seem not to be as good at this as our forebears, who turned the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and the Cuyahoga River into Earth Day 1 and the Clean Air Act, or even those ancient proto-greens who turned the fancy hat trade into the wildlife refuge system. Yale pollster Anthony Leiserowitz told The Washington Post that the difference between this summer and the awakenings after past disasters is as stark as “on versus off.” Why? Or, if you want to think more positively, what’s the recipe for doing better next time?
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