Looking at those sickening pics, I'm stumped for the right word, irony? paradox? but it is ... something, that mankind could never have grown to nearly 7 billion persons without the food production and distribution enabled by oil. I think the jury is still out on Malthus.
That's spill photos all right, but they're not "...spill 6 months later..." One of the pictures is the fire. I'm not defending idiots at BP. Just pointing out how media misrepresents.