The entire Gulf of Mexico is going to die before this is over.

[Subdivisions]

We've really gone and done it now.

:cry:

[babylonsister]

1. You don't know that. nt

[marylanddem]

2. That possibility is real.

[MrSlayer]

3. Our whole species is going to die.

And I say good riddance if this is the best we can do.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Lemmy will never die!

:D

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28252779/Motrhead+Lemmy+Saves.jpg

[U4ikLefty]

11. Now I gotta play me some "Ace of Spades"

:headbang:

[Swamp Rat]

12. I'm so pissed I feel like breaking things

[U4ikLefty]

4. Curious..a Rush fan? BTW, I am feeling helpless as well.

This is tough for me and I'm in California.

I can't imagine actually wating for it to come ashore.

[Subdivisions]

22. A Rush fan from way back. Awhile ago, after Pres. Obama was elected,

we were allowed to change our names. I decided on "Subdivisions" by Rush because it illustrates so much of what I've decided I'm against, constant sprawl and consumption. Our lives have been reduced to wage slavery and consumerism and social status and conformity to this restricted, controlled and regimented paradigm.

I'm working to change it.


"Subdivisions" by Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9Ycq64Gy4

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown
Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth
Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night
Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com

[U4ikLefty]

23. Very cool. I've been a Rush fan for year as well.

Been to every tour since Signals.

Subdivisions is an awesome tune & Singal is a great album.

[Bryn]

5. May oil dry up soon so that we can work on developing better & safer energy

Oil is cheap and quick for oil barons/stockbrokers to get rich.

[MrMickeysMom]

6. So ... what are we gonna do now?

That's the next question, if you're convinced of this.

[Ned Bro]

7. I fear you may be right

We are killing the planet and ourselves, step by step

[EFerrari]

8. It's worse than that. A lot of critters that live all over this hemisphere

and that go there to breed will also be toast. It's not only local, which is horrible enough. The Gulf is like a big nursery.

:cry:

[dana_b]

17. true

and those that stop there on their way somewhere else may be "toast" as well.

[Hempathy]

9. IF it gets the American people to finally face up to the oil addiction...

and corporate greed run amuk-

Then it may at least have a silver lining.

But it won't.

They'll hang it around Obama's neck like a giant oily albatross, and we'll get a hard-right administration in his place.

And the oligarchs will be more firmly entrenched than ever.

[Oregone]

13. Great pic!

Ah, don't stress it man. Its life and life only.

[MannyGoldstein]

14. No worries, the Bankers will be fine

If not, we'll give them taxpayer cash.

OK?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. North America is going to slip and fall and land on South America.

what with all that slippery oil

[charlie]

16. Maybe

Ixtoc's 140 million gallons didn't kill it, though.

[TheKentuckian]

18. The ever increasing strain on the oceans has a breaking point

and there has been 30 hard years damage since then. Unless, the relief wells fail we probably won't totally kill the Gulf but we can't keep pushing it. We should count ourselves fortunate if we don't turn the Gulf into the new Dead Sea or a parking lot and STOP NOW.

[charlie]

19. I agree

It's already weakened from the dead zones we've blown into it with agri-industrial runoff. Whatever the outcome, if we don't regard this as a brush with death and act accordingly, we'll almost certainly guarantee ourselves a calamitous collapse of the gulf ecosystem, one way or another.

[Divine Discontent]

20. I read a twitter post by a scientist who went into the water & he saw piles of dead fish. It was

quite disheartening to read.

[Scuba]

21. I share this fear.