BP Oil Leak - vs - Global Climate Change (An Analogy)

While watching some news today, I had an idea: I think a significant analogy can be made between the as-it-happens events of the oil hemorrhaging from a broken BP pipe into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the overall effects of man-made global climate change.

In the gulf
About a month ago, the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was reported as well as the first confirmation of oil spilling into the gulf waters. Industry experts told the public there was little to worry about; it could all be taken care of by BP. For a week or two it was difficult to spot oil from the leak as it was too far from the coasts and large amounts had yet to reach the surface. Again industry experts told the public there was really little to worry about. As of today over 60 miles of coastal beaches and marshlands have been saturated with oil, avian and marine life are dying in greater numbers, and the industries involved have provided us with few alternative plans for how to cleanse these areas. And the oil continues to hemorrhage...

In Earth's Atmosphere
About 30 years ago scientists began to understand the potential effects of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Industry leaders assured the public there was little to worry about and provided plenty of 'science' to contradict these new findings. Through the late '90s and early '00s, scientists worried about the rising global temperature. Again, industry leaders calmed the public by claiming these were just anomalies, not the beginning of some new pattern. As of today we are seeing another year of record-breaking high temps as species either die out or dramatically change migration patterns while polar ice melts increasingly faster into our rising seas and carbon dioxide and methane levels continue to rise. Industry leaders again provide us with few alternative plans readily available to meet our demands for energy consumption at the same time as they are telling us there's still nothing to worry about. And carbon continues to hemorrhage...

I'll admit that it's easy for us to say "Well it's only a problem to those over there" until it's on our shores. I truly wish it weren't the catastrophe it is, but as it is, I hope some will be able to say "Even though I live 1,000 miles away -- this affects me." Wishful thinking I suppose...

We understood Global Warming models in 1957 -- no question about it.

Same period that Rachel Carson came forward trying to waken us to the dangers

of the chemical soups we were creating.

Futher, before 1900, scientists could also see the very damaging effects on nature

by "the industrial revolution" --

In other words, had we never entered into "bus-i-ness" . . . we'd be ahead of the game.

We'd still have nature and its beauty, the planet -- and perhaps even peace?

But you hit the nail on the head I was aiming for. It's always "industry" that tells the business sector what will work or not. Now that a segment has been proven to be not only false prophets, but deadly ones at that, when will we realize the cost that we put on human life as a whole?

Nautre is all -- and there is no way to replace it and too often no way for it to

recover. To pretend otherwise is insanity.

My urging to push Obama and government to take this over was based on the very first

week of BP lying about there being "no leak" at all!!

Plus, anyone who looks at this industry couldn't fail to liken it to the Mafia.

Global Warming has a 50 year delay -- so the effects we are feeling right now only reflect

the damage we have done to the earth up to about 1960. Even that delay doesn't hold steady

because so much of this damage begins to compound and no one can say how it will compound.

We here in NJ already are averaging 25 degrees above our normal temperatures.

Certainly I don't see that our decades of exploding and testing atomic weapons were much

help to Nature!

And we have to stop responding to everything that happens with more violence!

From Korea to the Mexcian border!

:)