The oil “spill” which is still spewing thousands of gallons of oil PER DAY into our beloved ocean and killing precious, irreplaceable wildlife, and shutting down fishing boat after fishing boat for perhaps even generations, is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE and UNNECESSARY. I don’t care what the reason is, it is unacceptable.
If we set this up with even the POSSIBILITY of this happening, it is unacceptable. If people KNEW of the risks and went ahead with it, or as reported, knew of the risks and convinced others to bypass prevention efforts that would have saved us from this catastrophe, then they are responsible before God and should have their millions stripped away from them. Let them work in the fields or cleaning the highways in an orange jumpsuit for the rest of their lives, and then go to the next world and answer to God for what they did.
We can do better than this. We can demand better than this. We only have ONE Earth. When does she come first? When does greed come last? It is time that each one of us, in our personal lives and collectively, claim our identities are Guardians of the Earth. Put protection of her first. How would we then live? Would the millionaires make a little less money? Would we have to give up a little of our comfortable air conditioning? Would we be forced to look for clean alternatives to energy? All a plus. Fine with me. The time for excuses is overwith! We may be the last generation that has some choice in the matter. Burying our heads in the sand is no longer acceptable. The earth is changing, and precious resources among us today may all be gone tomorrow. Living, breathing resources. (Including ourselves, by the way.) We wouldn’t treat a dog the way we treat the Earth. She is beyond the point of suffering, and could be at the point of no return, or dying.
Certainly, the wildlife, shrimp, seafood and animals surrounding this gushing oil of thousands of gallons per day will be dying for generations to come, and they haven’t even figured out a way yet to stop the gushing!! Are you kidding me? There is no excuse in the world for this tragedy, and it lies on all of us.
On my walk today, I was amazed at the wildlife seen in such a short time. We live in a housing edition, houses close together, neighborhood association, the whole bit. Yet we are surrounded by woods, close to a lake, and have a large pond that sustains much life in itself, which empties in small amounts into a creek and the lake.
On my walk today, I saw a grey-blue, medium-sized heron fly back and forth across the pond from my disturbance. Numerous large turtles near the surface quickly scrambled away from my presence, diving to the murky depths below the pond surface. One had to quickly move over the top of a log before it could dive to safety. For once, I caught a glimpse of a large fish about as long as a yardstick. They usually stay further from the banks.
The normal gray squirrels scurry about in the grass. Not as many of them as we would see up north. A bunny rabbit coming toward me turned and jumped into the woods. Various birds singing, annoying little gnats sometimes in a cloud of flurry, a few dragonflies.
Back yards in my neighborhood serve basically one purpose: keeping the dog inside the fence. Almost everyone has a dog. Most have two. No one’s back yard is pretty, they are all a lot of rocks and dirt with some grass. No one waters their back yard, though many care for their front yards. Flowers are ALWAYS in bloom. It is currently summer. It’s been summer for a few weeks now, with mornings in the mid-60s but highs in the mid-80s. Soon it will be real mid-summer here, and air conditioning will run all day long. For now, we can open windows at night. Night-time, the toads come out and night songs of creatures unknown fill the air.
This little ec0-system here, completely ongoing and dependent upon one another’s presence, and we have the unconsciounable AUDACITY to pump oil into a much larger system without taking the necessary precautions, due to our insistent, insatiable GREED and impatience?? Absolutely horrific. We are the only ones with the capacity to protect the earth from ourselves. These creatures, and the ecosystem which WE TOO are dependent upon, is completely defenseless against us. We destroy ourselves.
Doctor Grandma 
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