This is from Dan Pink's talk @ the RSA and Ted. They animated it
My observations and responses to this crazy world; in color, text, and line
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
A few thoughts on this Oil Spill
When the earthquake hit Haiti, when the Hurricane hit New Orleans, when the tsunami hit Southeast Asia...the people came to aid. Even when the government was slow to arrive, the people did what they could. There were foundations set up, rock stars, movie stars and scientists showed up with their ideas and their checkbooks.
This oil spill is no less dramatic, no less tragic. This is, in fact, worse than we can even fathom. So much death is occurring and will occur as a direct result of this costly mistake. It is as if the oil industry has waged war on all the world, and we're just trusting them to do right with it. We're trusting the government to slap their wrists. We allowed this to happen! We are all responsible.
Do we really trust BP to take care of this mess that they have 'accepted complete responsibility' over, just as they were trusted to make sure they knew how to be 'safe' with what they were doing? Oil spills have been happening since the beginning of oil, and yet no oil company has been truly required to have a legitimate clean-up plan (except for some nonsense on paper)? The past spills have easily been swept under the carpet (or swept to sea in this case), but not this one. Even a blind man can feel the heat of an atomic bomb.
If we continue to trust the government to regulate this industry, and the industry to regulate itself, then we have learned nothing. We need to be pressuring our government, pressuring our congressmen and women to increasing regulation on industry! To change energy toward the clean, or we won't make it. We have to stop allowing the thirst for profit and progress to destroy our homes, our livelihoods, and each-other. And 'we' are not only humans. We are all life come from the muck some 3.8 billion years ago, and we all call this spaceship home; princes, paupers, and pigeons alike.
We have nowhere else to go if we mess this one up. We can't buy a new one. What good are your profits if you have no food to eat, everything you've ever known is dying or dead, and there's nothing left to live for?
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy
(And think of what 'happened' to the wisdom of the Native American Indians. The same tactics have been used to manipulate the public into supporting the ambitions of the few for far too long, and if we don't snap out of it and do something soon, we're not going to have a future to look forward too. Billions of years of evolutionary work, to just end down a short bumpy road that could have easily been avoided? How embarrassing)
This oil spill is no less dramatic, no less tragic. This is, in fact, worse than we can even fathom. So much death is occurring and will occur as a direct result of this costly mistake. It is as if the oil industry has waged war on all the world, and we're just trusting them to do right with it. We're trusting the government to slap their wrists. We allowed this to happen! We are all responsible.
Do we really trust BP to take care of this mess that they have 'accepted complete responsibility' over, just as they were trusted to make sure they knew how to be 'safe' with what they were doing? Oil spills have been happening since the beginning of oil, and yet no oil company has been truly required to have a legitimate clean-up plan (except for some nonsense on paper)? The past spills have easily been swept under the carpet (or swept to sea in this case), but not this one. Even a blind man can feel the heat of an atomic bomb.
If we continue to trust the government to regulate this industry, and the industry to regulate itself, then we have learned nothing. We need to be pressuring our government, pressuring our congressmen and women to increasing regulation on industry! To change energy toward the clean, or we won't make it. We have to stop allowing the thirst for profit and progress to destroy our homes, our livelihoods, and each-other. And 'we' are not only humans. We are all life come from the muck some 3.8 billion years ago, and we all call this spaceship home; princes, paupers, and pigeons alike.
We have nowhere else to go if we mess this one up. We can't buy a new one. What good are your profits if you have no food to eat, everything you've ever known is dying or dead, and there's nothing left to live for?
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy
(And think of what 'happened' to the wisdom of the Native American Indians. The same tactics have been used to manipulate the public into supporting the ambitions of the few for far too long, and if we don't snap out of it and do something soon, we're not going to have a future to look forward too. Billions of years of evolutionary work, to just end down a short bumpy road that could have easily been avoided? How embarrassing)
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