“Do not wait for Leaders; do it alone, person to person”
~ Mother Teresa
OH NO not personal responsibility! I hate this part of life. Surely there is an easier way deal with the oil leak that has spewed 100 million + gallons of crude into the Gulf.
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
~ Mother Teresa
Does that leak mean that now might be the time to learn the most we can about how we each use oil in our lives? We in the States are at least listening to the nightly news if not watching or reading it. We know that our industries (those that are left, that is) are oil dependent. We know that many of us must use oil to heat home during the winter season. Most us drive cars that require oil and oil by-products. Some of us believe that if we have a lot of money we can use whatever we can pay for and the rest of us, reeling from the recession, know that we can spend what we can scrape together for what we want. Somewhere along the line that became confused/ fused with what we 'need'. Not a constitutional right, eh.
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
~ Mother Teresa
How much do we love our primary home...Mother Earth? Drive less, use public transportation, give up that convenient plastic shopping bags, decided to recycle and reuse rather that buy, buy, buy... What discomfort are we willing to go through for the sake of loving the place we are living? Rally together so that industry left can have the black gold to help a crippled economy and save/ create jobs. Find those illusive "alternative energies" and actually use them. Listen. There is a subtle sound in the back ground...tick, tick, tick.... There is no "love it or leave it" choice in the here and now.
5 comments:
We have brought this disaster on ourselves.In the 1940's a major federal lawsuit was filed agaist the oil companies for buying commercial electric transportation and dimantling them, requiring new owners to use their gas powered vehicles. Now we need them back,but at what expense?
"at what expense" indeed! So much is driven by sear-sighted profit margins...
I just want that damn hole fixed!!
What in the heck are they Waiting on??
hughugs
WARNING! I agree. BUT I think that now although the immediate fix is over-due but will likely happen sooner rather than later. It is far too late for many thousands of birds, and heaven alone knows how many marine animals and fish have perished. Will there continue to be deep water drilling? Will the oil companies invest in alternatives? We will now hear the only viable alternative is atomic power ~ with the on-going problem of what to do with it's spendt fuel? I wonder that fixing the leak may just be the easiest part of this huge problem. We've yet to have a hurricane. What happens when an oil-filled storm surge rolls in? AND all the rest of us ~ what are we to do?
PS
Every European coutry that offered to help did so with a price tag. Do we charge when we help them out?
And did you hear today that even Iran thinks they need to "help" our president???
I also heard that they've got a lost wildlife count of 1000 animals so far...No telling what the true number is...
You're right, this will have horrible effects for years to come...but they also say (scientist) a hurricane would help break up the sludge on the ocean floor and bring it to the top...if That's destroyed, Everything is..screwed.
hughugs
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