Saturday, June 19, 2010

What are we gonna do about it?

Chalk it up as greed. Typical capitalist greed. To make quick bucks. By cutting corners. By taking extraordinary risks. That's where I put the blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And it could be far worse than we've imagined. If efforts to construct relief wells to stop the flow fail --and that's a real possibility -- the oil leakage in the sea could continue for two to four years. That's the guesstimate of some experts. Imagine that. That's pollution of the highest order. Gawd awful. A disaster. A catastrophe. All for the quest of profit. Stinking profit. That's the motivation in our capitalist society. British Petroleum (BP). The poster child for capitalist greed. The fourth largest corporation in the world. That dares exploit us all. The entire world. The people. The environment. For profit. Obscene profit. It's a crime against humanity. Against us all. And what are we gonna do about it? --Jim Broede

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