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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 09:56 AM
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Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately destroy human civilization
(NaturalNews) What's most striking about the present BP oil catastrophe is not that it is an aberration but rather part of a dangerous pattern of mankind's propensity to destroy nature. To destroy life in a large region of an ocean isn't even new: The world already has over two hundred "dead zones" where fish can't live because the ocean water has no more oxygen left thanks to the runoff effects of man-made chemicals.

Not content with mere deforestation and the vast destruction of biodiversity on land, Man has now expanded to destroy the oceans through overfishing, ocean acidification from CO2 emissions, agricultural runoff, flushing pharmaceuticals down the drain and unleashing crude oil directly into the ocean waters. It almost seems as if mankind were somehow bent on destroying itself by first destroying everything else on the planet just to see what happens.

Human beings, by any honest accounting, are repeat offenders engaged in crimes against nature. This article, by the way, isn't some clever way to try to push us all toward a U.N.-controlled world government where every human action is regulated by environmental cops; it's merely an observation of what's really happening right now on our planet. I'm a Constitutionalist and remain strongly opposed to UN control as much as any properly-informed American. In no way do I support suppressing our individual freedoms or liberties. In fact, the problems here are not with the People but rather with the corporations.


The criminal corporations
It is the corporations that are committing these crimes against nature: Big Pharma's mass poisoning of the waters, BP's oil catastrophe crime against the planet in the Gulf Coast, the manufacture of Depleted Uranium shells by wealthy "defense" contractors, factory farming by meat producers, the poisoning of our farms by Monsanto and its campaign to dominate nature with genetically modified seeds... you get the picture. If you really look hard at the issues, it's the corporations who are destroying our planet and thereby destroying future survivability for the rest of us.

It is the corporations, in essence, that are the criminals who are now destroying the very world around us, and if We the People continue to let these corporations engage in such actions, it won't be long before we wake up and find ourselves enslaved in a Corporatocracy that has stolen from us the very world in which we had hoped to raise our children.

What is abundantly clear now is that corporations will do anything to make money, from the cruel and inhumane factory farming of cows to dumping millions of gallons of toxic chemicals in the ocean to try to sink the dead sea animals in the Gulf. Corporations would set fire to the entire planet if that act could somehow boost profits by 50% next quarter.

The unbridled greed that drives these corporations is simply incompatible with sustainable life on our planet. Through their careless, greed-driven actions, corporations are threatening YOUR life and the lives of your children.

I say enough is enough.


An armed revolt against the corporations?

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=113801
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 10:27 AM
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1. Not may, "WILL."
Unless these people are checked by a government that stands with the majority against the moneyed minority, the earth will be largely uninhabitable.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 11:32 AM
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2. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Joanne.
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scarletlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 11:56 AM
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3. Absolutely f***ing true.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 11:58 AM
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4. I anticipate that the policy in the Gulf will become 'drill away since it
is already screwed up for generations'

This is like the old vacuum cleaner salesmen who throw dirt on your rug in order to get you to let them in. BP insists on closing areas to volunteers so that BP can manage the clean-up, or the lack thereof.
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