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When viewed in a global context, US oil exploration, production and consumption is turning planet Earth into a toxic-waste dump.

An oil spill at the entry of the Laguna Grande in the Cuyabeno Nature Reserve, Ecuador, 05/15/09. (photo: Selva Vida Sin Fronteras)
An oil spill at the entry of the Laguna Grande in the Cuyabeno Nature Reserve, Ecuador, 05/15/09. (photo: Selva Vida Sin Fronteras)

 

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+2 # Guest 2010-05-18 02:50
What I read, here, consists of *excuses* for continuing to pollute because everyone else is doing so, even if we can't actually see it. Hence, no-one will stop until "the others" do but the others will not, so we will all continue to contribute towards killing ourselves and others, with calculated purpose. Is this not suicide, as well as murder? What a vainly dumb species, human beings are!
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-05-18 05:43
BP=British Petroleum.....and I'm sure the Venezuelan and other companies pumping oil for the Chinese are even less concerned with the environment....remember, the Chinese destroyed the ecological paradise of Borneo just to get wood to build the stadium for their rigged Olympics!
 
 
+1 # Guest 2010-05-18 06:38
There should be an international EPA that extracts fines and sanctions if nations do not protect their environments. They are global and they should ahere to global standards. What the these nations don't seem to get is that if our oceans perish we shall perish too.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-05-18 06:56
In an email that I received from the Alaska Wilderness League, I received the following message:

"As the worst oil spill in American history grows into a national environmental disaster, Big Oil's 21-year hoax is finally revealed: Nothing has changed since Exxon Valdez. For 21 years, we've listened to their broken record repeating that familiar tune: 'Offshore drilling is safe, we swear!'

But it's not safe, is it?

With the seabed still gushing gallons per minute, their next drilling venture is about to begin. The first drill ship will soon set sail to America's Arctic where drilling will commence amid swells and sea-ice in less than 50 days – unless we stop them first!"

Ken Salazar, Obama's chosen man to run the Dept of the Interior, & who's currently being questioned by Congress, is allowing oil drilling in the Arctic ocean where there is no possibility of stopping an offshore oil spill if an accident does occur.
 
 
0 # Guest 2010-05-18 07:19
It would seem that no matter where one is in the world they have a option. In America, we can all walk from NY to LA and save. That is a lifestyle choice. For the people in less developed nations. less developed menas that they will settle for their present lifestyle. The bridges and roads will not come to fruition. What they have is what they get. It is a life sentence.

I a recent documentary it was stated that some 20,000 species have come and gone. What manes hono sapiens conclude that they will not be next. enjoy what life you have. No other species worries about legacy. That is ego-centric thinking.
 

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