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| 26689 | 330 | OIL ON THE BEACH | 11 | PeakMaster | Jun 2, 2010 | 2010-06-02T16:16:05-0400 | peacefulpete wrote: This and the flooding of New Orleans are two things that have forebodingly haunted me since the early eighties when I lived in SE Louisiana and studied the ecology of the marshes and tributaries from Bayou Sauvage to Ocean Springs. Tears are welling up now as I mourn the loss of natural beauty and diversity of such a rich ecosystem. BP was a willing accomplice, and they may even be guilty of 11 counts of negligent homicide, but we are all of us willing accomplices in the murder of the Gulf Coast. Convenient auto and plne travel, the ability to hop in and cruise to find the best break for a particular swell, the second fridge where we store our beer, the lights we use to grow our "vegetables," our plasma screen TV's, these were the weapons we used to gut the Gulf. We are all complicitous in allowing 30 years of roll backs in government oversight and weakness in fiduciary stewardship to erode our ability to do anything important the right way.Our demands for growth in our 401(k) and stocks, demands that drove corporations to push back hard on regulations, and our nation's fetish for David Stockman's Reaganomics fantasy, where tax cuts and military spending were seen as utterly compatible, all the time denying funds to develop alternative energy technologies. I blame Reagan. I Blame Bush the smarter and Bush the dumber, I blame Clintonian Democratic political triangulation and compromise on critical issues like energy independence and the environment. I blame Al Gore and Joh Kerry for being spinelss pussies with no core principles. But mostly I blame our selfish, narcissistic, consumerist society for killing the beauty and future of my precious Gulf Coast. This morning I apologized to every pelican that flew by the lineup, and felt as empty as ever over their cousins' fate. Click to expand... Yeah you blame a laundry list of people. But nowhere on your list do I see the current President and his team of befuddled lackies perpetuating red tape and wrenching their hands and doing everything but getting some balls, taking some action and resolving the issue. The Administration that Couldn't and Didn't should and will be his legacy. What are your plans for leaving "our selfish, narcissistic, consumerist society for killing the beauty and future of my precious Gulf Coast"? |