ahoy Denie mate,


sadly me friend, i think yer wrong on this one. BP has been running very foward thinking tV commercials for a long time, and i tend to be thinkin' that the whole campaign is just a cleverly packaged PR effort. not that i don't like it, kudos to them, but it don't mean a hill 'o beans.

and yes, there are small tremors that show signs of awareness that the citizens 'o planet earth are aware of what we're doing to our home, but in general, we all treat the planet like its a public restroom at a gas station;
we spray a toilet that isn't ours with feces, fill the bowl with filth, and exit quickly without flushin', since its not our toilet, and we know we aren't coming back when we're gone...so we leave it for someone else to clean up.

time and time again, we seem to reach the same line 'o reasoning...that the holy grail of human development on the planet is the bottom line. yes, yes, yes, we have to save our enviornment, but not at cost of economic progress.

imma not bein' hysterical over this, im just bein' realistic. my folks travel to china regularly, and behind the fiscal miracle thats happening there, is truly an enviornmental disaster. the air there in any of the eastern cities that they visited is disgustin'. the water is undrinkable in much of the country.

in america, development in the west continues, though even the most rudimentary research on the water tables shows that none of it is currently sustainable. even if immigration to those fast growing areas stopped, right now, there would be serious, dire shortages of H2O in the west well within our lifetime.

we're pouring money into corn based ethanol, when there is not a single person on this board who thinks that its a viable source of energy.

i read a book on the big cats...it was on tigers, actually. within our lifetime, there will none living in the wild in any measurable way, they will all be gone, and the same can be said for so many species. if i were to name them for ya, i'd have to be welded to me computer till thanksgiving to type them all in.

*comes to the end of his rant*

ahh well...its nothing that most of ya don't know anyways. every poster on USPOL will be dead in sixty years or so, yet we know thar ain't a bloody thing we can do about it, so why spend much time dwelling on it? i feel the same way about our planet...in the distant future (100 years, maybe more?), things be fubar, and since nothing can be done about it...we should probably just concentrate on things like gay rights, social security, securing the border, the hunt for osama, romney's postition on abortion, and john edwards haircuts. in the big, big picture, these are all teeny, tiny items 'o concern, but at least we can impact them.

party on mateys, AHOYYYYYY!

(ps- im not sayin' im better than any of y'all, either. im just as bad as anyone, and to be honest, i dont spend alot of time thinking about stuff like this. im intrested in seeing robert downey's portrayal of iron man, IRON MAN -- OFFICIAL SITE -- IN THEATERS 2008 . i also can't wait to play with the new Nikon D3x, and i know the roof isn't going to fall on me head in this lifetime...thats why these disaster documentaries are more of a nuisance to me that anything else! life is for the living and the enjoyment of it, not for the worryin' of our demise.)