I hadn’t felt a strong reaction to the Gulf oil spill until I started looking at the photos recently. Like many people, the reality only sank in when I physically saw the damage.
I’ve read articles about the hushed cries of the “Drill, Baby, Drill” Party and the various attacks on them. Now normally I would love this. I detest Salin Palin and everything she stands for so normally the chance to say I told you so would simply delight me. In this situation though, to do so would be greatly hypocritical. After all, didn’t I drive a gasoline-powered car to work today?
Ironically, as the gulf oil spill changes money-and-oil-hungry minds about drilling on American soil, it has changed my mind as well, but in the opposite direction.
Had this happened elsewhere, we likely would have heard about it, but we would not have felt its devastating effects—or at least only a fraction of them. Like many other social and environmental causalities caused by our American way of life—housing or shipping them overseas is quite a convenient way to not have to deal with them.
Like me, many must physically see—and for those on the gulf, experience—the damage before it becomes a reality that needs attention.
So yes. Drill, baby, drill. Drill here is America. Let’s stare the consequences of our ways straight in the face. Only then will we be motivated to change. I know I am.
What about you? What are your thoughts?
Simply,
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I just read this and thought you might like it: http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/06/07/bp-or-not-bp
Thank, Rachel. I did, if fact, like it very much