The oil industries rape the Earth while the citizens, shackled to the planet's life's blood, look on and wonder when She will shrug them off like a dog flinging water off its fur.
And let's face it: reliance on "God" doing the regulating while mankind does his business is now officially a bullshit proposition. God? Just another PR construct allowing rich fellers and the willfully ignorant to do what they please regardless of the consequences.
Because the folks at BP and all the other ancillary entities who pull the strings are the real gods here. And the gods are merciless.
Behold the gods of unregulated industry: they guard the wells, the banks, the battlefields; they guard the media, the farms, the laboratories.
These gods are sick. They have sated themselves on the planet's bounty and their attendant gluttony has created misery. We are being told that there is trouble in the Gulf. But we are not told the real story. Gods don't want the whole story told about anything, lest it become apparent that they aren't gods at all but just dumb, greedy, powerful men.
So as the oil weeps its way into the ocean, starting a chain of death that the stupid god-men dismiss with a smirk, thinking they are immune from the effects of their unregulated ignorance, the rest of the sentient world will have to resign themselves to becoming a race of coal mine canaries, twitching and spasming as the waters become fouled, the food chain ruptures, the life cycle becomes corrupted and the world wide withering begins.
Maybe the bible was a deceptively wry joke, that "God" is really Man, and that "His" creation is really whatever Man creates out of what the resources the Earth has in abundance. And that Armageddon is the war Man has with his world after the generations of misuse and abuse.
It shows you how badly regulation is needed for things which inevitably spin out of control. Things like Man. Too bad God is in the way.
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However, we on the left need to help nature. Soon there will come a call for a rise against Capitalism. The private schools, banks and elite will fall.
After that, it will be a new world.. A world where the logical prevail.. A world where nature and man live in harmony.. A world without classes.. A world of paradise.. Believe.
oh no, I lived in Key West for 20yrs.
heartbreaking.
I think I was remembering Steven's fine performance in Stephen King's "The Shining" TV mini-series remake. (I plug this well done, superior to Kubrick's, version every chance I get, Steven)
Anyway, I think Steven forgave me. :)
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Sounds awkward, but here's my logic:
serene -> serenity
pristene -> pristenity
That's it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCh3y5ycfns
Perhaps we could clean up the oil first . . .
Planet formed: 4.5 billion years ago.
Proliferation of sea life 500 million years ago. Atmospheric CO2 35 x present day. Ocean detritus begins oil formation (carbon fixing), driving atmospheric evolution.
Coal forming swamps and enough O2 released by plant life for ozone layer (permitting terrestrial life forms by blocking most UV light). Accelerated atmospheric evolution. 320 million.
CO2 4-5 x today. 200 million.
CO2 like today. 140 million. Subsequent drops in CO2 (accompanied by rising O2) led to cycles of glaciation up to 15,000 years ago.
In short the terrestrial plants and planktons have fixed 350-500 million years of CO2 as "fossil fuels." In geologic time a decade isn't a blink, but to wait on a "meaningful trend" while we incinerate all that carbon and put it back in the atmosphere risks returning to a planet incompatible with mammalian life. God has given us a brain. Let's use it. PS, clearing the equatorial rain forests, which account for a third of O2 production is also a really bad idea.
We now see where Palintology gets us, with the Exxon Valdez Supreme Court verdict in 2008, the current Gulf oil spill fiasco, and the ongoing C02 climate change threat.
God gave us a brain, but he didn't set it up to eliminate the primitive lizard part as the mammalian cerebral cortex evolved.
That lizard demon is still buried deep in our heads, and it never sleeps.
All of your science is correct as long as everything is exactly like you think it is.
If it's not, then you are dead wrong.
You have no reason to act like we are on the brink of disaster by continuing to burn oil.
What you have are THEORIES....
Like the THEORY of creationism...
Or the THEORY of evolution...
Or the big bang THEORY...
YOU DON'T KNOW...
The buffer for atmospheric CO2 is our oceans. They have a very limited capacity--at the cost of acidification of the ocean and the destruction of coral reefs, et. al. Do you want to wait until we can bottle the Pacific Ocean with flavorings and sell it as soda pop? The insatiable human appetite for fossil fuel is the equivalent of the Yucatan meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Sadly, anti-intellectualism is at the core of Republicanism. Ignorance is not bliss; it is the death of the planet as we know it.
I never trust "experts." I always take my car to the 8 year old down the street for repairs, and my truck driver brother-in-law does all my medical work. You can't trust mechanics and doctors.
"All of your science is correct as long as everything is exactly like you think it is.
If it's not, then you are dead wrong."
And the Earth is in orbit around the Sun. Unless it isn't, in which case I definitely paid too much for that beachfront property.
"You have no reason to act like we are on the brink of disaster by continuing to burn oil."
Okay, lets "act like" the world's glaciers aren't melting at an alarming rate. Let's "act like" the western US isn't experiencing record multi-year droughts. Let's "act like" the oil spilling into the Gulf at the rate of an Exxon Valdez once a week, is actually good for the environment.
"What you have are THEORIES....
Like the THEORY of creationism...
Or the THEORY of evolution...
Or the big bang THEORY...
YOU DON'T KNOW..."
I have another theory as well. The reason it took three billion years for sealife to finally crawl out onto the land, is because conservative fish were baring the way.
It was her knowing that just the month before the Supreme Court had finally resolved the Exxon Valdez case of that ship that destroyed the ecosystem of her constituents, siding in a major victory for Exxon, but realizing that a good Republican doesn't talk bad about ANY corporation, even if it's pitted in a Major Class action lawsuit against not only your people, but the land and coastline of their State.
This incident brings home just what kind of a leader Sarah Palin has turned out to be... Disloyal to her own people, bought by corporations. Another candidate for the trashheap of history.
I certainly can't argue with that, but lets not forget the other folks responsible here.
Those conservative Supreme court Justices, who voted in favor of Exxon and against the good people of Valdez, were appointed by Ronald Reagan, George bush Sr. and W Bush.
Alaska voted for each of those Presidents, and consistantly votes Republican.
That doesn't mean Alaskans deserve the Exxon Supreme Court verdict, but they certainly set themselves up for it. Elections have consequences, and who appoints Justices to the Supreme Court is one of the most important consequences of all.
Reagan, Bush Sr. and W still rule from that last chance for a shot at beating the bad guys in court.