50 ELEPHANTS
Thanks, Whit,
one more strong article about the Gulf oil tragedy, from in-field research and understanding:
www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill
But ~
The wider subject hasn't quite been touched on yet.
Those of us grown up inside a Vietnam experience already knew 40 years ago about the depths and criminal nature of those "In Charge".
BP is hardly a new reaction on the block.
It's been forming for decades, and all the while a larger portion of Americans have gone drunk drinking oil and buying vehicles (in many households EVERYBODY has a car, and if you're Jay Leno the sky's the limit) and heating their homes with the sweet tooth of a crazed adolescent.
Ever follow a Winnebago pulling a pickup truck trailed by a family member in a car?
This is the much tougher and dirtier picture than a continuous dumping upon the executives of the world.
They are already a dead species on this organic and leafy planet, despite their overbearing powers.
The vast majority have allowed their existence.
This is the 50 elephants in the room moment.
If you can't live with oil destroying your world:
start bicycling
start walking
plant a tree every week for a year
plant something / get the hands dirty, dirty is involvement
make a garden even if it is in a shoebox
know every time you fly in a plane you are spewing a ton of fossil-fuel garbage into the atmosphere
recycle recycle recycle
shut off the damn lights in every room in the house
pack a lunch
hang your wash out on the line
get on the bus!
remember how your grandparents lived
and, recognize finally true criminal behavior
and try those fairly where they will be shown prison
obvious is obvious
and set the unlucky and unfortunate free
the cruelty has gone on long enough
Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities
VOLTAIRE
one more strong article about the Gulf oil tragedy, from in-field research and understanding:
www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill
But ~
The wider subject hasn't quite been touched on yet.
Those of us grown up inside a Vietnam experience already knew 40 years ago about the depths and criminal nature of those "In Charge".
BP is hardly a new reaction on the block.
It's been forming for decades, and all the while a larger portion of Americans have gone drunk drinking oil and buying vehicles (in many households EVERYBODY has a car, and if you're Jay Leno the sky's the limit) and heating their homes with the sweet tooth of a crazed adolescent.
Ever follow a Winnebago pulling a pickup truck trailed by a family member in a car?
This is the much tougher and dirtier picture than a continuous dumping upon the executives of the world.
They are already a dead species on this organic and leafy planet, despite their overbearing powers.
The vast majority have allowed their existence.
This is the 50 elephants in the room moment.
If you can't live with oil destroying your world:
start bicycling
start walking
plant a tree every week for a year
plant something / get the hands dirty, dirty is involvement
make a garden even if it is in a shoebox
know every time you fly in a plane you are spewing a ton of fossil-fuel garbage into the atmosphere
recycle recycle recycle
shut off the damn lights in every room in the house
pack a lunch
hang your wash out on the line
get on the bus!
remember how your grandparents lived
and, recognize finally true criminal behavior
and try those fairly where they will be shown prison
obvious is obvious
and set the unlucky and unfortunate free
the cruelty has gone on long enough
Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities
VOLTAIRE
