Reply To: Gulf Oil Spill

[Jason Turner]

Trace, that is probably the most graphic ‘Handle’ on this. The reason we are muted is we all know the extent of our own complicity. They wouldn’t be drilling there if we weren’t buying it as fast as they can suck it out of the ground. So OUTRAGE against the machine sounds so hollow and hypocritical. We all want it to quietly go away so we can get on with out lives in our cozy comfort zone. Hardly a news flash, is it?

The sooner we run out of the poxy stuff, the sooner we are forced to make the changes we are procrastinating on making. As Lester Brown points out in his brilliant book ‘Plan B’, Roosevelt turned the American economy around from a civilian one to a wartime economy in 6 months. Completely reinvented it and the way it functioned.

We can do it too. If we want to.
What we need is clear and committed leadership.
And that is sorely lacking.