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Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It
“The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher,” the Institute for Southern Studies blog reported on May 10.
Any one of these chemicals in these concentrations would be lethal. Mixed together it’s truly unthinkable.
The fragile US economy, in the midst of a feeble attempt at a jobless recovery, overstretched by war and out of control spending is not equipped to handle a disaster of this magnitude. No country in the world could. Remember how well they handled the Katrina thing? This makes Katrina look like a grade school fire drill. Well I wonder how well they will do this time as they prepare to evacuate entire cities and states. See this and this. Once the evacuations begin the markets will tank. Once people are forced to grasp what is happening around them the global economy will come to a screeching halt as it’s engine, the USA, sinks into the throes of the worst environmental disaster in the history of the world. This will cause a dollar confidence crisis. Enraged citizens will riot and loot with no hope of a decent life ahead of them. Martial law will be declared.
They have no way to stop this, only a theory that maybe a nuke would implode the oil pocket. Ya, we’re talking about nuking the earths crust under the ocean. Eventually the oil will make it’s way around the world as the entire oil deposit is unleashed into the ocean.
Are you buying the crap coming from BP? The bogus press releases and the downplayed assessments? They’ve been lying through their teeth, censoring the media and destroying evidence. If you trust them, you have some problems.
4 Comments on "Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It"
RICHARD RALPH ROEHL on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 11:22 am
The disasterous calamity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico begs to question (again)… THE DOCTRINE OF PERPETUAL GROWTH of the human population and the global consumer economy on Planet Over-Birth Earth, a fragile HOST ORGANISM of finite space and finite resources. Earth is a closed looped system; perpetual growth in a closed looped system is not progress. It is cancer. Full blown cancer.
The planet has reached its limits to sustain the current population; further growth of the human population and/or the global consumer economy is a one way ticket down the road to extinction.
We are clever baboonies… but we are not wise or prescient. We lack common sense for the common good; our social, political and religious institutions fail us. I have the comfort of knowing when the foundations of the castle crumble… those in castle towers shall fall the hardest.
RICH OR POOR… WE ARE ON THE TITANIC… AS THE GREAT $HIP SINKS OFF THE COAST OF EASTER ISLAND!
Roderick Beck on Thu, 17th Jun 2010 3:50 am
John,
Guys like you are disregarding advocates of Peak Oil with your Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse talk.
Bella on Fri, 18th Jun 2010 8:20 am
Nukes no, Thermite yes. A thermite bomb could seal the well, a nuke would only make the hole too big to ever seal, but thermite reaction produces a flow of melted iron that would seal the hole. But BP will do no such thing, because they don’t want the hole plugged, they want to keep selling the oil
Edpeak on Sat, 19th Jun 2010 5:18 am
I’m got abolishing corporations (at least in their present form) so am the last to ‘defend’ BP but are you sure about:
“But BP will do no such thing, because they don’t want the hole plugged, they want to keep selling the oil”
First of all, are you sure that they “couldn’t sell the oil” if they shut it with a blast? Couldn’t they drill a new hole, whose cost would be far far less than the estimate 20 billion (and counting) in penalties and damages?
Oil seeping through the bottom of the ocean they can’t profit from and they pay damages, so they don’t want that, one imagines. Either topkill or other way to shut the well that does not leave with permanent damage and oil seeping through the seabed into the water, they could at least theoretically drill into again.
The problem is corporations think short-term so they take risks that late screw the public and screw the environment and even screw their own long term profits, by cutting corners..at least for now their short term thinking is making them want to end the seepage of oil into the sea. Even if they can’t re-drill they still don’t want to have it come out that they never can seal it, and risk the public reaction to that to sieze the company or something.. What we’re not paying enough attention are the non-disasters that are the “business as usual” day in day out not just by BP but by ExxonMobil and others, where risks are taken daily at the public expense, and much smaller spills (but a huge number of them, whose total really adds up) take toll on our environment but the media doesn’t cover that like the Deepwater Horizon..we DO need to pay attention to the latter, but also to keep an always watchful and (sorry “drill baby drill” crowd and Republicans) that means much more regulation, every day, every week, every month, while also taking billions form BP and Exxon and others and putting it into public transit, wind, solar (thermal, PV, concentrated and other forms), etc.
If the government took away the taxpayer subsidies given to coal and oil and nukes, and used that for renewables, not only would the planet be much cleaner and safer, we’d probably by now all have a renewable generator in our back yards or apartment balcony generating half or more of our power and we’d all have more money in our pockets, and not rely on Big Energy…but Big Centralized Energy (coal, oil, nuke) don’t like that.
“Why don’t we have real mass scale solar, after all these years and decades?” someone once asked Ralph Nader.
“Because Exxon doesn’t own the sun,” he replied. If ExxonMobil owned the sun, we’d have solar years ago, in fact, we’d be *required* to buy solar power from them perhaps…