Listen and Think With the Mind of Clarity and Reason
In 3 short years since this cautionary tale, we have abandoned the necessity to protect world water resources by aggressively pumping oil into water to search for more oil to pump out of it. Globally, we need to abandon fossil fuel use. Humanity understood that reality when we started pumping out fossil fuel. We told ourselves it was a stop gap measure and bought the lie. No longer is fossil fuel “cheap energy.” It is costly to our pocketbooks, ecological vitality, and planetary stability.
Many humans walk this Earth as if they are separate from it and that its functionality in no way effects their ability to live. This level of ignorance is dangerous and impedes on the rest of humanities continued survival. The waters, lands, plants, and animals are not owned by us. We are merely passers by.
What we do while we are here not only matters to the survival of the planet but to the human species, which is directly connected to this singular living, breathing planet in the Milky Way system, which we call Earth. We do not have to be the planet’s black plague. We have been given the choice. What a wonderful opportunity. What a wonderful gift. Re-prioritize what it means to live and act accordingly.
Petitions For An Urgent Call To Action: The number of petitions to stop Australia from destroying the last safe haven for whales from oil drilling companies are dangerously low. Without a strong, constant voice, rest assured Australia will continue to pillage resources for profit. Where are the voices of all the protect whales programs? Why are they quiet?
Additional Action ALEC Debunks American Voting System ALEC is a semi-secretive Corporate-Political special interest group attempting to remove voting rights of citizens in an effort to secure more profit for industrial moguls. Your ability to vote affects how animals and the environment are to be protected. Stop ALEC now!
On February 27, 2012 Obama caved to corporate and political pressure and invited TransCanada to reapply for “permits” to construct this abomination.
The lack of moral center and utter disregard for the welfare of animals, people, and the planet displayed in this overtly corrupt line of thinking has me contemplating the meaning of Daniel Webster’s words. Of this, the United States of America, he stated, “There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter: from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.”
The vacuous weight given to Benjamin Franklin’s words by “professional politicians” who do not see the world beyond their own pocketbook. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
The echo of Samuel Adams address to the Philadelphia State House whips through the night air. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
The Founding Fathers of the United States haunt every inch of the nation bellowing their profound shame at how quickly corruption has killed one of the most daring achievements of man – the quest for freedom from tyranny and oppression. A land based on the voices of the people not on governmental edicts.
Sign petitions. If you are not able to sign petitions and live outside the United States then call and email the White House. If you have already signed petitions then pass them along to everyone you know and start another petition. If you are a citizen of the United States it’s time to jam up phone lines and email in-boxes of local and federal representatives in addition to the White House.
Canada considers allowing unparalleled damage to riverbeds, oceans, and habitats necessary to support life in order to chase the oil dollar. Meanwhile, animal populations continue to rapidly deplete from Tar Sands poisons.
