As hard as it is to believe right now; oil is a natural product of nature. Eventually the Earth will absorb it back up and you'll never know there was this big a problem.
Does that make this any less awful? No; but nature always sorts itself out. There's more oil seeping out of fissures in the bottom of the oceans than from all man made siphons and you would hardley know it. We brought it to the surface and that's why it's impacting us.
We can help the clean up and need to, but eventually the oceans will clean itself up; the fish will travel their usual routes and we'll still be driving our cars; manufacturing our products and fabricating for our needs.
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