“There’s a tremendous amount of outrage with the oil spill, and rightfully so. But where’s the outrage at the thousands and millions of little cuts we’ve made on a daily basis?”

— Felicia Coleman, director of Florida State’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory, quoted in The New York Times on July 29, 2010. Coleman was discussing how the Gulf of Mexico had been suffering from the cumulative effects of pollution for decades prior to this year’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.