This worse than Katrina, economically speaking, and worse than any other man-made disaster I can think of. The Gulf of Mexico will take centuries to recover from this mess. If they don’t stop it soon, it may never recover in a millennium..................
Sorry, but simply NOT TRUE. Look up the proven science studies on the recovery of other oil spills, especially the Ixtoc spill. The ecology will recover in 3-5 years. The Ixtoc spill put out more oil, for a longer time, and affected much more shoreline area. A study done by the Texas "Bureau of Land Management" found NO identifiable damage to the ecology after three years.
PDF file is here.....
http://invertebrates.si.edu/mms/reports/IXTOC_exec.pdf
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill
"Despite over 3.3 million barrels of oil ending up in the environment after the cleanup, the beach fauna or beach populations were back to where they were before the spill within two to three years. [11] After 6 years, it was difficult to find any evidence of oil.[12] Today, after more than 30 years, there is little sign of the oil spill.[13]"
Similar studies exist for the Exxon-Valdez spill, and for the FAR larger Persian Gulf (Gulf War I) release, with similar results. The recover time for the EV and PG spills were slightly longer than for Ixtoc, because of the colder climate for the EV, and the far larger size of the PG, but in general, the ecology recovers FAR more quickly than is spoken of in the popular media.