Obama also cannot weep, not because he is stunned, but because there is no human being inside that suit he wears; just as there is no democracy in the Democrat's badge he used to get elected. He's really a being from Hell, from the Underworld, and that is no exaggeration. This is the Left speaking, folks, not the jerk-off Republican Tea Baggers whose heads are utterly up their right wing asses.

The U.S. should declare war against B.P., and seize their assets and be done with it, quid pro quo.

This has to be the saddest thing I have ever experienced.

Bravo WRP! Among the most accurate and passionate essays on humanity's global paving death march. There's plenty we can do, or refrain from doing, to help reduce our individual destructiveness: get rid of all jet skis, leaf blowers, weed whackers, Hummers, poisons, hunting rifles, and other death machinery. Oppose NASCAR, Wal-Mart, US Chamber of Commerce, and their ilk. Plant an organic garden. Don't have as many children. Ride a bike and walk, instead of using gasoline. Oppose the US military, including ROTC and recruiters. Do your own solar and wind project at home. No more fast food. Watch Democracy Now. Realize that dem and repub parties are bought off by the same corporations. Live better with less.

Cue the Sex Pistols yet again!

"No future, no future, no future for you or me"

Follow with a dollop of DEVO

"Freedom of choice is what you got... Freedom from choice is what you want"

"God made man, but he used a monkey to do it!" "Are we not men? we are DEVO"

Bless you all mt children and William, except Mr. Anon. I sent Obama to the capital in order to dethrone those who satan had allowed there.....when I come down I shall vaporize all republicans.......

Well the end of THIS world it is.
Let's see BP's president spin this one!

But there's worse. Jesus made a typo, a few posts earlier. It's going to be a rough ride, I can tell.

It is easy to blame BP and amoral capitalist ethic to which they subscribe. But BP exists to fuel the suburbs, the outlets malls, the sea of plastic flooding dollars stores from across the ocean, and the fleets of automobiles representing tens of millions of strip mines, displaced peoples, organized violence, and destroyed ecosystems which we love more than ourselves, each other, and our children.

The ocean dies because we kill it for the only two values persistent to our non-negotiable way of life: quantity and cheap.

We made our choices decades ago and we owe the Earth a great debt. It has come due and the generatio born today shall pay it.

Can't help but notice that WR Pitt doesn't bother mentioning that his most favoritest guy in the world, Barack Obama is all for off-shore drilling. These words of yours are wasted Mr. Pitt, unless you have an idea... beyond the obvious statement that our bankrupt value system is killing the planet.

When the human race goes extinct, nature will have corrected it's most tragic mistake. My biggest regret is that we are going to take so many other species of life with us when we implode.

I watched a replay of Obama's speech from April 2 where he told eager listeners that off shore drilling was safe and that the technology was up to the task of meeting any problems. Then I watched a Coast Guard training film made a few years ago that basically said that modern technology was wholly inadequate to deal with a large underwater spill. The guy I thought was going to save U.S. This man would be a moderate Republican 40 years ago. Bravo to WRP for a moving article. And it's about damn time someone started to question the "patriotism" of those whose true allegiance is to nothing but money.

Will,

"worse things have happened than this Gulf spill (maybe)" ?

I don't know, this seems like about the worst single thing ever.

Certainly more harm to Mother than Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

It is slowly, quickly, somewhat hastily, I don't know for how long, dawning on me, that we are french fries in a basket of oil, powerless to do a thing while BIG MONEY AND THE CORPORATIONS destroy this planet.

I'll be interested to see how Obama responds; will he spin or will he tell the truth. That he blew it, he made a mistake, he swallowed the "Drill Baby Drill" kool aid so he could be a real playa, be accepted as a middle of the roader about a road where there ain't no middle. This man is gonna need to be brave now. Cause we'll be watching. But the truth is, I believe, that we are powerless, and reality tv is our diversion from reality. No matter what Obama does, we are a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporations, and that is that. Doesn't matter who runs or who wins, they all have to be very rich to get in the game in the first place and once they're in, they're powerless too, bought and paid for.

I'm getting awfully tired of the knee-jerk commentators who blame everything that happens on Obama. Yeah, he's not what you expected. Naive optimism, blinded by charisma, yeah?
The fact is, as Will says, and a couple of people have commented, we're all to blame. We're the ones who wanted SUV's and unlimited cheap energy to fuel our boytoys, and said full speed ahead and damn the spills to the 7 Ugly Sisters.
Wake up folks, I've said it before and say it again and again. For god's sake, wake up and let's stop what we're doing to the planet.
Yes, what we're doing to the planet. Not what BP's doing, not what Obama's doing. What we're doing! US!!!!
We're the ones who pour our money into BP's coffers, so they have more and more to invest in offshore drilling.
We're the ones who naively put Obama in the White House, believing his hypocritical BS.
And now, as Will says, we all pay the price.
So stop buying their oil. The word is BOYCOTT. And not some specious 'let's all boycott Exxon for one day' liberal gesture. A full time, permanent boycott of all the Corporocrat bastards we currently enrich with our hard-earned dollars.
The only way to attack disgusting people whose ethic, as Will says, "scantly exists beyond a profit motive devoid of morals or genuine patriotism", is to hit them where they will really hurt. Gut their profits, mangle their money, butcher their bottom line. Bankrupt the sons of bitches!!! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT!! BOYCOTT!!!

Earth abides.

I'm not sure at all anymore after listening, reading and watching ''informazzion' coming from the collective of the very few Global Corporate Media Empire Enterprises operating everywhere all the time in America.., which, thanks to 30 years of DEREGULATING EVERYTHING CORPORATE, are now almost all owned, operated and exploited by just a few GLOBAL Corporations...

So, I'm just not sure anymore if the Economy comes before the Environment or vice versa...
Tell me again, which one is it we need to have so that we can also have the other..?

Can somebody get back to me on this because Global Corporate CONservative Media Enterprises have created doubt about my doubt about my doubt about my doubt...

And please... can you also tell me...

Is it necessary for almost all the Media Enterprises in America to be owned and exploited by just a few, huge, gigantic GLOBAL Corporations because its conducive to a Free Press and many many pipelines for Free Speech... or is it the other way around..?...

I forget because Global Corporate CONservative Media Enterprises have created doubt about my doubt about my doubt about my doubt...

The Oil Slick has MOSSAD written all over it.
While U.S. Military is being used to depopulate the Muslim world, the USA is being looted and destroyed from the inside.
The Zionists have one word that stops all investigation/accusation: "antisemitic'.
The Talmud rules Legality has replaced Morality.

When I first saw the magnitude of this crises I had a deep sense of foreboding that something huge had just happened. With each passing day the feeling has intensified.

I find myself wondering what the next few years has in store for us as a species. It is as if the fact we live on a little spaceship has finally become obvious, even though, Bucky Fuller coined the phrase "spaceship earth" decades ago.

We cannot plead ignorance about this. The warning signs have been clear and have been with us for nearly 50 years or more. We, as a species, just couldn't be bothered to heed the warnings. We couldn't be inconvenienced enough to change. Our narrow political and economic priorities took precedence and now, we shall see what the planet will do to cure itself of our disease.

The planet will survive, but the little bugs on it's surface will be swept away as the Earth disinfects itself. If any humans remain afterward, they will be very different because as a result. All life on this planet will likely be very different because of this.

I sense we will be in for an awesome show of our own design. I too am heartbroken that it has had to come to this.

We should have a fleet of tank barges to suck up and float off the oil. Lets process it while we can. This spill will be felt world wide.
The East coast will have it washing up on it's coast line in a few months from now.
Why are we not acting more now!!!!!!!

We are the virus; that is clear. Gaia will be forced to rid herself of us and our spawn. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I cannot watch anymore, so I live here in this small place, and I drive once a week, recycle, reuse, can my garden, and keep my vicodin and vodka ready. While BP has teams of people working on many "solutions", it is clear they have NO solution. Has the guy from BP who said, "we're behind schedule and we're over budget, so we can't fix that control plug or replace that battery...it won't be a problem" been put in jail yet? Have his superiors been held to account?

It has all been said. The question remaining is this: What does BP plan to do with all the money when the planet is in the throes of death? All this destruction for mere money. How senseless. Many humans happily give up all the things that money can't buy which are more precious than the money they trade it for. I too can no longer weep.

I think Obama is to blame in this: that he has not declared a national state of emergency -- that he didn't do that as soon as it was apparent -- to everyone -- that this was huge and threatened so much. I have cried about this and I'm sure I'll shed more tears -- I know I have to accept that the Gulf we knew and loved -- along with so much sea life, not to mention the livelihoods of good people -- is gone, finished. And Obama is doing nothing that I can see except putting politics and money before taking right action. What a tragedy for all of us. Thank you for your heartfelt, beautiful piece.

All this reminds me of The Borg. Startrek fans will know what I mean. Mother Earth is being consumed by greed, ignorance and lust. The Borg has arrived on Planet Earth - are we really lost?

Before reading this essay, I watched the Red State Road trip video on mountain top coal removal. I highly recommend viewing this video!
Yup, I cried.
Like Angeldog, I too, thought that the destruction of the environment witnessed in the 70's would change the way we humans interacted with our natural world. Some things did indeed change; the rivers got some clean up and stopped being on fire. But the sad, irrefutable truth is that human beings have been short-sighted fools, never for a moment thinking about the next seven generations.
Tears, yes, and a very hollow feeling in the solar plexus...and what to do????

I, too, brought my son into this world almost 25 years ago. I apologize to him at regular intervals for the world he inherits. We knew 30 years ago we would have to retool; those I hold in deepest derision are those now wagering on disasters and suffering.

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