WATCH: This Is One Time-Lapse Big Oil Doesn’t Want You To See

Oil spills often bring to mind images of oil-drenched birds and blackened coastlines, but this incredible time-lapse video presents the human and financial cost of every oil spill since 1986. Politics aside, these stats are downright disturbing.

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