For everyone who doesn't follow fefe's blog I really would like you to visit google maps. There you can see overlayed pictures of the oil spill on different days. It was really frightening for me to see what humans are able to do.
In my opinion the term "environment protection" is simply wrong. Environment and nature doesn't need to be protected. I can (more or less) ensure everybody that earth will still exist in a million of years.
"So the question is not if we can protect the nature but if we* can still live in it!"*