OUTRAGE!!!!!

DriftEd
DriftEd Posts: 74
edited June 2010 in A Moving Train
Why isn't this oil spill the top news all day everyday?? Is it because there isnt an immediate impact on humans? No one is buried under rubble or drowning in tidal waves or tsunami's? Not to down play those horrific disasters AT ALL, but this is quite possibly the worst environmental disaster ever!!!!!!

Why aren't there any telethons? Celebs protesting? Why isnt this TOP NEWS ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!!!!!

HUMANS ARE ASSHOLES.
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  • amongsTheWaves
    amongsTheWaves Posts: 68
    Agreed! If it were in a third world country, the US would swoop in to the rescue! (with it's intent to gain global brownie points) The two biggest problems with this are; 1- it happend to the USA, and 2- all of our politicians are in bed with big oil!
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    wait till the oil and other chemicals get absorbed into the fish or spread throughout the ocean's currents or rain, storms.....oh, and the methane that is leaking....

    maybe we really will wipe ourselves out in 2012
    don't compete; coexist

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  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    i say fuck BP, take away their business license. if you or me kept wrecking our car and killing people every few years i'm pretty sure they would take away our drivers license.

    BP has proven they are too irresponsible and cheap to operate in our country.

    what we should do is send the 2 tom's in to interview these fucks at all these regulatory agencies and see who is just a shill and who will actually enforce the laws

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKa68kWk ... re=related
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    when this first happened a month ago i wrote that no one really cares ... environmental disasters are not in the conscience of your average joe ... it's the bitter truth that i've come to realize ... it's like the pareto principle ... there are like 20% of us that worry and care about 80% of the worlds problems ... most people just want to be able to buy a coke and watch lost at night ... which is why corporations have been able to do what they've done for so long ...
  • philthehip
    philthehip Posts: 2,084
    Agreed folks. Im deeply horrified and shocked by the lack of care that the US is showing to this. I dont mean its people but its politics and its business leaders. BP should be shot for this one. How many times do they need to fuck up before someone steps in and fucks them off.
  • Woobynab
    Woobynab Posts: 50
    I don't blame BP. I blame the society we live in. You have to remember that it is Americans who are setting the demand. If you want to blame any one, blame Reagan. He's the one who ripped Carter's solar panels off from the White House lawn 30 years ago. We could have ended this addiction years ago.
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    Woobynab wrote:
    I don't blame BP. I blame the society we live in. You have to remember that it is Americans who are setting the demand. If you want to blame any one, blame Reagan. He's the one who ripped Carter's solar panels off from the White House lawn 30 years ago. We could have ended this addiction years ago.


    so if i ran over a kid i could blame society for giving me a car? while society does bear a lot of guilt for our complacency BP still holds a lot of the fault for being too cheap
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Why should we blame BP when the real problem would be those who accept big money from BP to keep fossil fuel regulations to a minimum? That's the real reason we're in this mess. Gov't cronies having sex w/ BP.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    DriftEd wrote:
    Why isn't this oil spill the top news all day everyday?? Is it because there isnt an immediate impact on humans? No one is buried under rubble or drowning in tidal waves or tsunami's? Not to down play those horrific disasters AT ALL, but this is quite possibly the worst environmental disaster ever!!!!!!

    Why aren't there any telethons? Celebs protesting? Why isnt this TOP NEWS ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!!!!!

    HUMANS ARE ASSHOLES.

    Environmentalists are made fun of by the every day Joe. Like Polaris said, "Joe" is too consumed with when they can drink their next Coke and the season finale of their favorite show.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Isn't this just another so-called problem that's being overblown by the tree-huggers? :roll:
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    scb wrote:
    Isn't this just another so-called problem that's being overblown by the tree-huggers? :roll:


    TOTALLY! Fucking greenies anyway and all their evil, twisted plots to help the planet. Why, if it wasn't for those hippies, we'd have already rendered this motherfucker uninhabitable.
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    polaris_x wrote:
    when this first happened a month ago i wrote that no one really cares ... environmental disasters are not in the conscience of your average joe ... it's the bitter truth that i've come to realize ... it's like the pareto principle ... there are like 20% of us that worry and care about 80% of the worlds problems ... most people just want to be able to buy a coke and watch lost at night ... which is why corporations have been able to do what they've done for so long ...

    spot fucking on!!
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    you can smell it on the coast. everything smells like oil.

    i guess its not a huge thing in the media because it isnt killing people, and there isnt much that can be done except wait. just a slow motion trainwreck.

    i do think its the biggest story going right now. well between that and the economy. both are pretty bleak.
  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    Fuck BP- Fuck the oil spill....this shit makes me so sad. Why the fuck can't we get it right- the all holy buck doesn't trump the mother...learn it, remember it, live it.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    if you are feeling outrage - the ultimate question is: what the cuss are you gonna do about it!??

    :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

    it's easy for us to express outrage in the comforts of our excessive society ... change starts in one place and one place only ... it's not really that hard ... the people we are up against are after one thing and collectively we have a lot of it ...
  • whgarrett
    whgarrett Posts: 574
    Quit trying to blame someone or some company on this situation. Scapegoats. Truth is we are all in bed with the oil companies. Do you drive a car? Do you use electricity? Do you use plastic? What is my part in this "disaster"? This is cause and effect people. You drill oil and some will leak out. You use nuclear energy and some will leak out. You mine for coal and some may leak out. It does make me sad to see nature in peril, but in all reality the earth will go on. And if we do somehow "destroy" the earth(unlikely). We are but one planet in a universe. What's the big deal. ;)
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    amongsTheWaves wrote:
    Agreed! If it were in a third world country, the US would swoop in to the rescue! (with it's intent to gain global brownie points) The two biggest problems with this are; 1- it happend to the USA, and 2- all of our politicians are in bed with big oil!

    while I don't disagree with your assertion that politicians and big oil...I find the first part of your post silly...

    don't you think if "the US" knew how to stop this leak, that they would have by now...?
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    whgarrett wrote:
    Quit trying to blame someone or some company on this situation. Scapegoats. Truth is we are all in bed with the oil companies. Do you drive a car? Do you use electricity? Do you use plastic? What is my part in this "disaster"? This is cause and effect people. You drill oil and some will leak out. You use nuclear energy and some will leak out. You mine for coal and some may leak out. It does make me sad to see nature in peril, but in all reality the earth will go on. And if we do somehow "destroy" the earth(unlikely). We are but one planet in a universe. What's the big deal. ;)
    I guess its not just the fact that some of us drive cars or use plastic or electricity etc, but the rate at which we do.

    I mean, I dont have a car but will certainly plan to get one some day... but that doesn't mean i'll drive it every-fuckin-where i go... like some people! (ahem, my brother).

    People don't care. They're too ignorant unfortunately.
    And its true the earth will still be here long after we're gone, we're just killing ourselves (and every other being with us).
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  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    haffajappa wrote:
    whgarrett wrote:
    Quit trying to blame someone or some company on this situation. Scapegoats. Truth is we are all in bed with the oil companies. Do you drive a car? Do you use electricity? Do you use plastic? What is my part in this "disaster"? This is cause and effect people. You drill oil and some will leak out. You use nuclear energy and some will leak out. You mine for coal and some may leak out. It does make me sad to see nature in peril, but in all reality the earth will go on. And if we do somehow "destroy" the earth(unlikely). We are but one planet in a universe. What's the big deal. ;)
    I guess its not just the fact that some of us drive cars or use plastic or electricity etc, but the rate at which we do.

    I mean, I dont have a car but will certainly plan to get one some day... but that doesn't mean i'll drive it every-fuckin-where i go... like some people! (ahem, my brother).

    People don't care. They're too ignorant unfortunately.
    And its true the earth will still be here long after we're gone, we're just killing ourselves (and every other being with us).


    not to mention there are very few alternatives.

    it also doesn't help that the oil, coal and nuclear industries each got more money in the federal budget than all other alternatives combined. there was almost 11 times as much $ in the budget set aside for loan guarantees to build new nuclear power plants (which will take years to buld then several decades to pay back) than was given to alternatives!
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Dead dolphin sponsored by BP..

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