Decades long abuse of the soil and the land culminated in the Great Dust Bowl years of the 1920s and the 1930s. The procedures being used on the land were designed for short-term exploitation, not long-term conservation.
As we know by now, these bills always come due.
We have been warned for years about the inherent problems for the ecology in offshore oil drilling. We have also been warned about chemicals in the food stream, nuclear waste, genetically modified food, and the rapid depletion of the water aquifers in all corners of the world.
Our technology is quickening the rate of our demise.
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Catastrophe is not a workable word for what we're doing to the planet. The Gulf is metaphor for all of it.
It sure is, and it is so obvious:
our technology MUST be used to respect the planet... and ourselves!... as well as disrespecting the planet and its inhabitants.
So far, disrespect is nuclear, high tech, and well-funded; whereas respect is Greenpeace in small boat putting everything on the line to stop whale-slaughter.
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