I say in my post that I see that she does post a link to where people can go help out. Read my post again. The website says that people can go help out by going and checking out the oil spill, and documenting it. Savethebay.org (your link, by the way) says that being a spectator can be helpful, of course not as helpful as cleaning it up, but still helpful nonetheless. I'll admit that I was upset by the starting tone of Chili's response and should have read the second part more closely.

I admit that it may seem a little odd to say "I want to go see the oil spill", but, like I explain, it really isn't that odd at all, it's quite normal. I want to see it. I want to go see it with my own eyes, not just on TV or the newspaper. I'm not expecting to have a warm fuzzy feeling when I see it, I'm in fact expecting to get pretty pissed off about it, more than I already am! Nevertheless, I think it's important that EVERYONE have a look at this disaster for themselves, whether or not they help out. I think seeing it will help all of us understand, just like seeing a Holocaust museum or one of those Bush Lied About The War movies, we need to see shit like this, we need to see it for ourselves. We need to see the impacts of our uber-consumerism, we need to be directly confronted with the impacts of not being careful about the environment and taking it for granted. Sometimes I feel like nothing short of a civilization-threatening disaster (rising sea levels? aquifer depletion? skyrocketing cancer rates? wide-scale soil erosion? . . .) will make most people wake the fuck up and understand that our consumption methods are utterly unsustainable. If people want to go see the oil spill, for God's sake, don't give them such a hard time about it, just tell where they can go see it, and when they see it, they'll understand!!

Try looking at it from that perspective and maybe, just maybe, you'll see what I mean.