We were blessed with life and given ONE planet to care for. Epic FAIL! time to turn it around people. Humankind hasn't been here all that long, if we don't make changes NOW, we won't be here for too much longer. How many other living things will we take with us? Very sad. Wake up please!
We can't "do over" the catastrophe in the Gulf, but we can and must prevent it from ever happening again. We must take action to put all the talk about clean, renewable energy into motion to manifest as reality.
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Oil companies need to mandate a portion of their profits to renewable energy. Offshore drilling needs significant regulation and new permits should not be issued.
We cannot afford to have another corporate generated disaster like the one currently raging in the Gulf Coast Region of these United States.
It is your responsibility to make sure that there are regulations in place that govern the oil industry's conduct. Without that piece in place this current disaster will just become one among many.
It is time to act according to the will of the people of these United States and not solely in favor of the corporate community.
We need your focus to be placed on creating Clean Energy Resources. This is how responsible legislators respond to the needs of the people.
Please do your job. We cannot afford to continue to be oil addicted.
It's time, ladies and gentlemen, for us to forsake our carbon crackhead ways and get off the oil pipe. No legislator in his/her right mind should persist in promoting fossil fuels over renewable energy.
Because of greed corners have been cut, and profits put above human life. There were so many events that led up to this that could have stopped it. The fact that so many spoke up and were told to keep drilling.......they were behind, and losing a million dollars a day. Well, they've now lost more than that and the gulf, marine life, residents, fisherman, and America have lost beyond comprehension. I can't speak for everyone, but I know alot feel the same way I do. Accidents do happen but most are preventable and some are just predictable. This spill was both! And I think that's what makes many of us the most upset. All humans should do better when they know better and BP knew and did nothing.
I have a problem with the fact that BP executives and board members have direct financial ties to Nalco, who manufactures Corexit, the dispersant being used in the Gulf. I have a really bigger problem with the fact that it's being used at all. It's banned in the UK for crying out loud! While it may solve the political problem of visible oil it in no way solves the environmental problem. Out of sight out of mind does not mean out of the marine life it's killing and those who are cleaning it up. It actually increases the exposure of oil to the marine life and creatures who live in the water. When dispersants admix with crude oil, a third far more toxic product is produced called "dispersed oil" and it's been shown to be more toxic than the sum of all it's parts. The dispersant pulls the oil into water in the form of droplets which then takes on a form that looks like food and they can also clog up fish gills. Are you going to stand by and watch the biggest environmental experiment or are you going to stand up for the Gulf, the marine life and the people who live there? We are all waiting and watching, and losing our patience and most likely the Gulf of Mexico as we once knew it.
The time for clean energy isn't now - It was YESTERDAY!!!
The new Plantation Mentality: our dependence and enslavement to the oil industry. Oil spills, coastal deterioration, oil-sponsored Arab terrorism and cancer: How much abuse should we take before we throw off these shackles?
What the Bible says about Stewardship Over Earth and Its Inhabitants:
* Genesis 1:26-28 seems to indicate clearly that humans were placed in charge of the non-human world.
* Psalm 8:6 reiterates that idea.
* Psalm 24:1 indicates that even though we are, in some sense, in charge, the world, and the things in it, are God’s.
* So does Psalm 50:10,11. The story of Noah seems to indicate that, at one point, humans were directly responsible for the lives of many kinds of animals.
* Genesis 7:2-5, 14-16, Proverbs 12:10 and Proverbs 27:23 all have to do with caring for animals.
* God seems to care not just for animals in general, but for kinds of animals.Psalms 104:24-25 praises God for the diversity of His creation, and His creatures. Since this explicitly includes the wide variety of ocean animals, it doesn’t seem possible that this praise is meant to be only because of their usefulness to humans.
* Genesis 7:3, 14-16 indicate God’s concern that the different kinds of animals would be preserved.
* Genesis 8:1 says that God had not forgotten Noah or the animals. Noah and his family were God’s agents in this care, of course, but they were God-directed agents. It would seem reasonable to argue that in our day, we also have responsibilities to the kinds of animals that exist in our time.
8 Presidents, 4 decades, dozens dead this year alone: Stop kowtowing to the oil and coal lobbies and make real change happen. The USA can do anything, we can have renewable energy independence in a decade but we have to want it.
Everyone in Congress should see the show/interview 60 MINUTES did!!! BP should be held accountable and every oil rig they own or have anything to do with be thoroughly inspected by the US Government!!! I am not big on Government control but this is one place the need to step in and take serious action or it could become worse then we can ever imagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kick the lobbyists (of all stripes) out of the Beltway.Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law political leaders, policy makers, and campaign staff and former federal office holders and staffers for their corrupt dealings in pushing the corporate agendas of big oil/big energy, getting us into two fiasco wars and creating foreign policy havok. Make lobbying and interest peddling illegal, period. Make a solid commitment to getting our country substancially off of fossil fuels within a ten to twenty year period.
I urge you to support the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act (ECEA) introduced by Patrick Leahy in the U.S. Senate.
Under current law if a jury finds BP criminally negligent, the company would not necessarily have to pay any restitution to the victims of the spill -- not even to the families of rig-workers who perished or to the fishermen put out of work. Furthermore, criminal penalties are currently too lenient to adequately deter corporate wrongdoers from authorizing risky schemes that damage the environment.
Something must be done to fix this. Please support the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act (ECEA), to make restitution for violations of the Clean Water Act mandatory and increase criminal sentences for violators.
I have felt as though I was personally violated by this spill since day one when 11 people were killed in the Deep Water Horizon explosion. On Day fifty-six I am actually physically ill, and I know that I have made myself sick over this disaster. I have prayed to God for help and I believe he has answered through efforts like this to actively take part in the effort to begin the clean-up of the mess and to keep it from ever happening again.
Big industries need to be held accountable for the damage they are doing to the earth and to us as well, with their "marketing genius" manufacturing fake food and chemicals! It is going to take a lot of voices, a lot of boycotting and a lot of sacrafices to effect the changes necessary! Count me in!
As i am sure you know more than 50 days have passed and still oil by the barrels are spewing into oceans and killing are eco system, and is killing off jobs for costal fisherman. how bad does this have to get before some one takes this seriously? do more animals have to die and jobs, or even people? the effects of this will take potentially hundreds of years to correct. there are enough people offering solutions to help with this problem why are you not listening to the college professors, the Governor of Louisiana, or even the movie star kevin costner who have all suggested things to help clean this up? and why do you continue to allow BP to LIE????? grow a set of balls and get this situation under control!! or get out of the way and let the people who want to fix this and clean this mess up do their job!!! your laziness and skepticism will only make this worse. GET TO WORK OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!
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Get your act together for once!
It is your responsibility to make sure that there are regulations in place that govern the oil industry's conduct. Without that piece in place this current disaster will just become one among many.
It is time to act according to the will of the people of these United States and not solely in favor of the corporate community.
We need your focus to be placed on creating Clean Energy Resources. This is how responsible legislators respond to the needs of the people.
Please do your job. We cannot afford to continue to be oil addicted.
I have a problem with the fact that BP executives and board members have direct financial ties to Nalco, who manufactures Corexit, the dispersant being used in the Gulf. I have a really bigger problem with the fact that it's being used at all. It's banned in the UK for crying out loud! While it may solve the political problem of visible oil it in no way solves the environmental problem. Out of sight out of mind does not mean out of the marine life it's killing and those who are cleaning it up. It actually increases the exposure of oil to the marine life and creatures who live in the water. When dispersants admix with crude oil, a third far more toxic product is produced called "dispersed oil" and it's been shown to be more toxic than the sum of all it's parts. The dispersant pulls the oil into water in the form of droplets which then takes on a form that looks like food and they can also clog up fish gills. Are you going to stand by and watch the biggest environmental experiment or are you going to stand up for the Gulf, the marine life and the people who live there? We are all waiting and watching, and losing our patience and most likely the Gulf of Mexico as we once knew it.
The time for clean energy isn't now - It was YESTERDAY!!!
* Genesis 1:26-28 seems to indicate clearly that humans were placed in charge of the non-human world.
* Psalm 8:6 reiterates that idea.
* Psalm 24:1 indicates that even though we are, in some sense, in charge, the world, and the things in it, are God’s.
* So does Psalm 50:10,11. The story of Noah seems to indicate that, at one point, humans were directly responsible for the lives of many kinds of animals.
* Genesis 7:2-5, 14-16, Proverbs 12:10 and Proverbs 27:23 all have to do with caring for animals.
* God seems to care not just for animals in general, but for kinds of animals.Psalms 104:24-25 praises God for the diversity of His creation, and His creatures. Since this explicitly includes the wide variety of ocean animals, it doesn’t seem possible that this praise is meant to be only because of their usefulness to humans.
* Genesis 7:3, 14-16 indicate God’s concern that the different kinds of animals would be preserved.
* Genesis 8:1 says that God had not forgotten Noah or the animals. Noah and his family were God’s agents in this care, of course, but they were God-directed agents. It would seem reasonable to argue that in our day, we also have responsibilities to the kinds of animals that exist in our time.
Under current law if a jury finds BP criminally negligent, the company would not necessarily have to pay any restitution to the victims of the spill -- not even to the families of rig-workers who perished or to the fishermen put out of work. Furthermore, criminal penalties are currently too lenient to adequately deter corporate wrongdoers from authorizing risky schemes that damage the environment.
Something must be done to fix this. Please support the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act (ECEA), to make restitution for violations of the Clean Water Act mandatory and increase criminal sentences for violators.
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