What I am NOT getting here...
By
Patricia Cori
Is it me, or has the world basically resigned itself to the idea that 5,000 barrels of crude oil are belching into the Gulf of Mexico for weeks now, and all we have coming forth for solutions is relatively feeble attempts on the part of BRITISH PETROLEUM to repair the damage to the pipeline within MONTHS?
What I am not getting here is this: where is the United Nations on this? Where are the governments, the environmental protection agencies, the global population? In our own circles, people tell me they “cant bear to hear about it on the news,” and so the solution is not watching the news. Uh....hello? This catastrophe, which clearly has NO END in sight, is one of our greatest environmental disasters, since Chernobyl perhaps. We are being told they simply don’t know how to repair the not one but two leaks in the pipeline, and that the most realistic ideas will take months to enact. Now I don’t know about you, but I’m doing my elementary mathematics here and thinking hundreds of days at 5,000 barrels a day (knowing that it is far more than that!) x 100_ days and asking myself and anyone who will listen what this means for the oceans of our planet.
While the media seems primarily interested in the effect this will have on tourism and the fishing industry – economics – wild life is dying once again at the greedy hands of man. Other than platitudes from Obama, the U.S. Government is relatively uninvolved in bringing the situation under control, while everyone points fingers as to whose fault this is. BP is responsible for the clean-up. That is not working. Plan B???????
OK. Here’s an idea: this is too immense and urgent a crisis to leave in the hands of a private corporation. Where are our best engineers – the geniuses? Where are our top scientists, biologists and technicians? Where are the think-tank guys who strategize other global considerations (besides war, of course)? Where are the governments... Where is the human race in general?
Somewhere between the six o’clock news and a bag of chips, the world sits watching and when it cannot bear any more, it turns off the news. Millions more gallons of crude oil pour into our dying ocean. Are we so anaesthetized that we do not even want to be galvanized into action?
For the love of Gaia, people. Protest in every way you can. Write to your governments, demanding answers. If you can, get to the beaches and help the animals, being burned alive in crude. And remember – there is no greater violence than knowing, and doing nothing.
Please write to the White House immediately, demanding intervention to assist BP in bringing this situation under control and reminding the government that the idea of DRILLING OFFSHORE, as was announced only days before this occurred, is OUT OF THE QUESTION. Please flood the White House or your government offices in protest! In the U.S.:
www.WhiteHouse.gov
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