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@3 , I completely agree. It's a great juxtaposition.
I hate what has happened, and our sick corporate culture that allows this kind of thing to happen, but I do agree that we haven't killed the planet - we may have killed the fish and birds of the Gulf, and we have no idea of the global impact yet. I do think there will be a global-wide impact. But some other lifeforms will thrive, and rise, and everything will change again.
So head on down and chow down!!! YUMMYY!!!! Good Eats!!!
And I read that pick up truck sales are UP this last month!!! That's a lesson well learned!!!
"Man vs. Nature: ONWARD TO VICTORY!!" starring Troy McClure!!
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A Rorshach nightmare!
No one with a TV or a car or a computer or food on the table is clean. 94% of all commerce in the world depends on petroleum products.
Demand for the stuff is going to double over the next two decades, too. Recycling your grocery bags isn't going to make a whit of difference.
Yes, but by focussing on the criminal contduct of BP, aren't we letting an industry who have "accidents" like this on a fairly regular basis off the hook?
I can't believe how much we've fucked with nature here
And, it seems like no one else has mentioned this, but even if we re-release the sea turtles and brown pelicans, what if they come back to the Gulf? Sea turtles almost always return to their breeding ground in which they were hatched to lay eggs. Will they return next year to find the same screwed up habitat? Will the pelicans, gulls, etc. return to their breeding grounds or accept Tampa, FL as their new home?
Fine, laugh, but as long as we pay irresponsible corporations to do things for us, WE ARE THE PROBLEM.
This is the single most infuriating thing about our culture, for me. This incredible ignorance and denial and utter amorality. We pay people to do terrible things and act like we bear no responsibility for those actions. Oil companies, factory farms/big agriculture, drug companies. . . and on and on. . .
If we didn't pay them, they wouldn't exist. It is our fault. My fault, your fault, our fault.
not in this lifetime. gloom n' doom, yep. poor fuckers.
I think your post is funnier with "garden 'salad' of Eden" ... Just saying.
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That is the only argument here with any weight, because it's the only one with truth. We as humans could never do anything to harm the earth, even with oil and nukes and deforestation.
We'll just make it less hospitable for us. The earth will always be here, and she doesn't care what she looks like. We just wanna feel special for "protecting the earth" when all we're really doing is protecting our self interest.
And yeah, it's sad, oil covered cute animals and all. But, in the end, under/oversea volcanoes, hurricanes/typhoons, and other natural weather patterns kill way more animals than a greasy stain we worry too hard about.
Also, I live in Metairie, and am fully aware of the impact, so think twice before you try and accuse me of not knowing.