Yell Louder, Yeah, that Will Cap the Oil Leak

[kpete]

Yell Louder, Yeah, that Will Cap the Oil Leak
By Al Giordano


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Okay, just this once, I will point fingers. You know who is to blame in addition to BP and the government that allowed this oil rig to be built? Every single one of us that ever drove a car, got in an airplane, or drank from a plastic bottle (they’re made from petroleum, too). The heavier our “carbon footprints” the greater each of us is to blame. Go yell at yourself now.

Yell at yourself especially if you live in the United States, because you use up twenty times the earth’s resources as people in other countries. You are, therefore, twenty times greater to blame for this civilization’s addiction to oil that created the market for which BP and others went drilling in the seas.

Yell louder if you are a parent. You, breeder, are twice as much to blame as the childless person because your little darling is also using up twenty times the earth’s resources as the child of other lands. The more kids you have had, the louder you must yell. That’s right, go yell at your children, too. Beat them, if you must. That’ll cap the leak!

Are you using a computer right now? You electricity slut! Turn it off immediately and go yell at the mirror instead. Make sure to turn off the bathroom light as you do so. Go take a sledgehammer to your car and smash it to bits in front of all the neighbors. That’ll make a real loud noise. (Make sure to include the “Save the Planet” bumpersticker in the rubble.) What? You can’t live without your car because you live in a rural area? You slob! Don’t you know that city dwellers use up far less energy per capita than you bumpkins? Go yell at your pigs, cows and chickens then, and at the people who eat their meat, because they have huge carbon hoofprints too.

more:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3964/yell-louder-yeah-will-cap-oil-leak

posted by a very quiet but NOT suicidal - kpete,
oh my (and I am a recovering catholic as well...the guilt)

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yes, the corporate WHORE news model read this bunk on C-SPAN Journal this AM.

<no offense to sex workers> :silly:

[NJmaverick]

3. Yet more useless hate and anger being spewed

:eyes:

[dionysus]

5. LATTE IN MY FACE!! CORPORATE PRIVATE SCHOOL CRUISLE MISILLEE!!1!

http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/img/card-shock_and_awe_iraq.jpg


how'd i do?

:rofl:

[NJmaverick]

7. You forgot Drones and Corporatist

:hi:

[dionysus]

8. COPRO BANKSTERWHORE DRONE111!!1!!

FRAUDSTERS111!!!
http://yorick.infinitejest.org:81/1/img/card-predator_yemen.jpg

[dionysus]

4. so.. what are you doing to lessen your dependence on oil? or is yelling CORPORATE WHORE CRUSIE MISSL

E1!1! enough to have a clean conscience? :silly:

[wtmusic]

12. Please do tell what you're doing, and let that serve as an inspiration.

:eyes:

[wtmusic]

2. "But they sure ain’t gonna think faster with you yelling in their ears"

Agree! We should be patient with BP. Mistakes will happen, and what right do I have to insist they protect the environment...I drive a car!

What a whacko. :silly:

[Amonester]

6. 57 here, never owned a car, transit thru...

hydro-electric powered subway wagons on a daily basis (live next to station), puter plugged into hydro-electric grid, and on...

Still guilty though, but a little less (by choice) trying to reduce that carbon footprint as much as I can.

[patrice]

9. Every oz. of oil that ANY of us EVER used increased the possibility of this sort of thing happening.

And, when it is possible for one to do some small thing to mitigate a harm and one CHOOSES not to do that small, easily accomplished, act, doesn't that make one more guilty than those who need to accomplish bigger, much harder, forms of change?

[slackmaster]

10. Great rant

[MineralMan]

11. Ah, a living human being is carrying that sign.

How odd, and how inappropriate.

The population limiters all see to think that it's only "others" who should take themselves off the planet. Funny, that. :shrug:

[obxhead]

13. To a point this is correct, yet it does not absolve BP of it's blame.

To keep it in perspective this spill happened due to cost cutting procedures by BP and a failure to regulate in any meaningful way the oil industry and it's practices.

Yes we drive the reason and need for oil. That does not mean that we intend for the oil companies to use methods doomed to catastrophic failure in the quest to fill our needs.

I for one do try to cut down my use and always be aware of it. Would I pay more for "safer" oil. Yes but I would bitch about it as well.

Now would I pay a LOT more for safer oil that had a serious endeavor to free us from that oil. Yes gladly.

So by all means I can scream at myself and my family for our use, I am in part to blame. However that in no way excuses BP for the catastrophe they have caused through cost cutting measures.