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you people are so thick. Friedman has a lot to say but little anyone can act on. If his solutions were viable they would have made more pervasive inroads into the mainstream. The bottom line is known alternative energy sources are not feasible on the macro scale. Moreover, most of them are little more than swindles designed to make someone else rich on the fad. More importantly, it took more than 100 years to build the existing energy infrastructure. What makes you think it can be replaced with less efficient alternatives any quicker? The current tragedy in the gulf is no one's fault; humans are imperfect therefore, none of their ventures can ever be faultless. Even when strict safety and operational guidelines exist they are often not followed by people. But you drooling fools find it more comforting to blame our imperfections on inanimate objects like corporations, governments and organizations and to rant in moral outrage than accepting the fact that we will never be without flaw. I guess that's best since you're obviously not equipped to deal with the reality of our situation here on earth. Go ahead dunderheads; keep your heads buried in the sand slurping on that diet of pomp and rhetoric from CNN; their advertisers rely on the fact that you'll gobble down anything they say especially that idea that large corporations and our government actually have the coordination to create these mega villains you're all so worried about.
This oil slick is far be-on anything any human or group of humans can repair. Thirty years ago I met a nasty old man, who had so many bad things to say about the human race. I remember thinking this guy is messed up. He referred to people as parasites of the planet.
We live in a age that must end! The fossil fuel age must end now, not ten years from now. two thousand years from now the earth will be ok - without people. Over the years I must say I am starting to lose my faith in the human race.If there is any man or woman who can not see that we as stewards of this planet have failed to do our job.
Does your bubble ever touch the ground? As someone noted earlier, it's taken over 100 years to develop the fossil fueled infrastructure we have today. This infrastructure has allowed the human race to improve its standard of life, and has provided wealth creation which supports far more souls than would exist without the industrial revolution. This well blowout accident is extremely bad, and undeniably regrettable. But to say that it will never be remediated is just foolishness. The following quote is from the NOAA site which is still studying recovery of Prince William Sound following the Exxon Valdez spill:
Resiliency of the Sound
Recolonization at Herring Bay
What we have found is that, despite the gloomy outlook in 1989, the intertidal habitats of Prince William Sound have proved to be surprisingly resilient. Many shorelines that were heavily oiled and then intensively cleaned now appear much as they did before the spill. Most gravel beaches where the sediments were excavated and pushed into the surf zone for cleansing have returned to their normal shape and sediment distribution patterns. Beaches that had been denuded of plants and animals by the toxic effects of oil and by the intense cleanup efforts show extensive recolonization and are similar in appearance to areas that were unoiled.
Bottom line, you are an ill-advised, ignorant, and illogical eco-zealot. Your utopian view of a pristine planet, unfettered by the likes of a parasitic infestation of mankind, indicates that you have no reasonable understanding of the planet...and it is a fricking PLANET. One or two good Krakatoa type volcanoes could put the planet in a millenniums long ice age. One major comet strike and nuclear winter starts off. Mankind is the first sentient being to ever have appeared on this planet. I'm sure that you're an evolutionist, so I won't open that can of worms. However it is that we came to be, we are different from all other beings that have ever inhabited this planet. We are self-aware creatures, able to ponder the nature of their own existence. We are capable of incredible acts of courage and cowardice, love and hate, good and evil. Numbnuts like you are apparently unable to internalize the fact that we are different from all other beings on this planet. I know this will simply ricochet off of your eco-inanity, but I felt like venting and don't care.
Back to the issue at hand. The blowout will be controlled and stopped. The oil will be gathered and removed from the water, and cleaned from the shores. In 10 years time the damage will be completely remediated. And mankind, the shining pinnacle of God's creations (or the acme-to-date of evolutionary process), will be wiser, and STILL IN NEED OF FOSSIL FUELS. It's in your car tires, the paint on your car, virtually all of your medicines, plastics, and feedstock and fuel for virtually all industrial endeavors. So go on and keep dissing the human race, it is simply an artifact of your own self-loathing. Keep bitching about the infestation of the planet by our species, hopefully it might take your dumb *ss out with a good old fashioned tornado or earthquake. One day the Earth will probably extinguish our species, but I hope that we've progressed intellectually and spiritually to have a game plan for escape into the great beyond by then. We have yet to master gravity...when we do, all bets are off. So go eat some pine nuts and yogurt Earthboy, and let the grownups take care of things.
It is terribale what happened here but at least somebody is trying to fix it.
Im surprised that Ombma has not got the point of unless he fixes this mess he will be held responale. And the companoy who let this happen come on some should some them for a few grand. But like I siad at least someone is trying to fix the promble.
I'm assuming English isn't your first language...
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