"Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins . . ."Now, along with endangered species, the Gulf spill has given us a new category: endangered oceans.
The challenges presented by the disaster lay before us in their incomprehensible enormity. To what extent have the hundreds of thousands of gallons of the highly toxic dispersant Corexit 9500 that BP has poured into the Gulf aggravated the ecological horror? How will hurricane season complicate the cleanup? Will the flow of crude continue till Christmas? How many cleanup workers have gotten sick, and why? Might the "relief well" also blow?
We can't solve our problems, as Einstein said, with the same kind of thinking we used to create them. This sums up the situation for me as well as anything - and pushes my despair up against the door of possibility. We're at the far edge of the industrial age: the age of fossil fuels. How do we proceed beyond it?
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17-3
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