Sixteen hundred ducks die on a tailings pond in the oilsands and an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico is spewing crude into the ocean. It is easy to point a finger at greedy corporations but we have no one to blame but ourselves. As our appetite for fossil fuels remains insatiable, corporations will continue to get rich while meeting our demand. Everyone is aware of what is happening but yet we ignore any solution if it threatens our current lifestyle.Bottom line is if we begin to live simply and cut back on what we are consuming, the market for high risk and dirty oil will dry up. Trying to sustain the unsustainable is not only impossible but immoral.
"The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners" - Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955)
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Realistically, all oil is 'dirty' oil. The environmental cost is much too great. Unfortunately as with everything else in this world, if there is profit to be made exploitation will follow.
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