Inchoate rant about the Gulf
Jun. 4th, 2010 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeI have been successfully suppressing my rage at what is happening in the Gulf. Until I read this article, with an accompanying set of pictures that is breaking my heart.
Look at this baby. Look at what we are doing to our fellow travelers on this planet. They are drowning, they are dying.
And who's to blame? Obviously every executive at BP who had anything to do with this operation should be publicly tarred and feathered (and then boiled in oil skimmed off the top of the beautiful waters they ruined). But in a larger sense, it's obvious that we consume far, far too much oil. You'd think 9/11 and the subsequent poisoning of our relationship with Saudi Arabia would've been a wakeup call that we need to not only reduce our dependence on foreign oil but reduce our oil consumption altogether. But no. No, we get stupid, stupid, short-sighted, oppositionalists who equate responsible stewardship of our beautiful blue planet with them lib'ruls and make blithe statements like "oil is natural, the ocean will take care of this" and toss off pithy soundbites that sound good to stupid people like "drill, baby, drill." Oh I see what u did thar, Sarah, you with your cutesy, winky, hopey-changey-mock-y folksiness! Fuck the environment, fuck future generations, let's just go full bore ahead and take what's there! We can't try to find an intelligent solution for energy alternatives because that would mean reaching across the aisle and the Limbaughs and the Palins can't have that, can they? And so this huge demand for oil produced an environment where there were great profits to be made, and thus great pressure and temptation to overlook regulations and restrictions that would prevent this sort of thing from happening. Regulations, those pesky little things for the little people, not the Masters of the Universe, not the Men Who Run Things. Their attitudes--attitudes that have been nurtured for a long time of deregulation and good ol' boy sweetheart deals--have flourished so grotesquely in the last eight years that they are now like camellias and magnolias and lilies past their time, rotting on the stem, stinking while they still try to assert their dominance. Like Tsar Nicholas and his tsaritsa, these little men rail and wave their little fists against the new order, and resist the manifest knowledge that public opinion has turned against them, that things have changed.
Fuck BP. Fuck Goldman Sachs and all the banks who gamed the system. God, I'm so angry about all this. My beautiful Lousisana, where my parents began their married life, where my brother was born, the home of many of my cousins and distant relatives, destroyed. All those animals, dying. All those people, those fishermen and those who tend to the waters, dying.
Look at this baby. Look at what we are doing to our fellow travelers on this planet. They are drowning, they are dying.
And who's to blame? Obviously every executive at BP who had anything to do with this operation should be publicly tarred and feathered (and then boiled in oil skimmed off the top of the beautiful waters they ruined). But in a larger sense, it's obvious that we consume far, far too much oil. You'd think 9/11 and the subsequent poisoning of our relationship with Saudi Arabia would've been a wakeup call that we need to not only reduce our dependence on foreign oil but reduce our oil consumption altogether. But no. No, we get stupid, stupid, short-sighted, oppositionalists who equate responsible stewardship of our beautiful blue planet with them lib'ruls and make blithe statements like "oil is natural, the ocean will take care of this" and toss off pithy soundbites that sound good to stupid people like "drill, baby, drill." Oh I see what u did thar, Sarah, you with your cutesy, winky, hopey-changey-mock-y folksiness! Fuck the environment, fuck future generations, let's just go full bore ahead and take what's there! We can't try to find an intelligent solution for energy alternatives because that would mean reaching across the aisle and the Limbaughs and the Palins can't have that, can they? And so this huge demand for oil produced an environment where there were great profits to be made, and thus great pressure and temptation to overlook regulations and restrictions that would prevent this sort of thing from happening. Regulations, those pesky little things for the little people, not the Masters of the Universe, not the Men Who Run Things. Their attitudes--attitudes that have been nurtured for a long time of deregulation and good ol' boy sweetheart deals--have flourished so grotesquely in the last eight years that they are now like camellias and magnolias and lilies past their time, rotting on the stem, stinking while they still try to assert their dominance. Like Tsar Nicholas and his tsaritsa, these little men rail and wave their little fists against the new order, and resist the manifest knowledge that public opinion has turned against them, that things have changed.
Fuck BP. Fuck Goldman Sachs and all the banks who gamed the system. God, I'm so angry about all this. My beautiful Lousisana, where my parents began their married life, where my brother was born, the home of many of my cousins and distant relatives, destroyed. All those animals, dying. All those people, those fishermen and those who tend to the waters, dying.
