The long term physical effects of dispersants on marine life are horrifying.
The dispersants break down lipid membrane, making it easier for the oil to penetrate skin and cause internal bleeding. These dispersants also cause birth defects. Birth defects can be hereditary, thus one generation with defects and mutations can pass them on to generations past the oil spill but who still feel its effects.
Solving this problem is definitely creating an even bigger problem. The spill is four times as toxic with these dispersants added to it. If we didn't use dispersants, we would not cause defects, mutations, and pain to marine animals. The Corexit alone is actually causing deaths at less than 1/7 of the crude oil by itself.
The dispersants are definitely worse than the oil. It's more toxic, it causes more problems, and it isn't really even effective.
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