Monday, May 17, 2010

Day 137

Conservative estimates suggest that 5,000 barrels of oil are spilling into the gulf everyday from a broken well. For the last few weeks I have been avoiding further details. I prefer not to ponder the implications. Then last night I watched 60 Minutes - they provided a blow by blow recount of the events surrounding the disaster. So much for denial.

Perhaps what disturbs me more than news of the actual disaster is our response to it. Everyone, the companies involved, the media, even our president, seems to be focused on who's to blame. I am, by nature, critical and I have spent a lot of my life energy on the blame game. I am starting to see what a horrible waste of time this really is.

In the case of the oil disaster, blaming distracts us from the real work that needs to be done. We cannot continue to use oil in the ways that we have become accustomed to. If we do, we will continue to choke this planet to death. Disasters like this one are simply the cost of doing business. We are all responsible for changing the way we do business.

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