"There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea..."

[nashville_brook]

"There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-r-barber/theres-a-hole-in-the-bott_b_585394.html


Time to dig that old summer camp song out of the trunk: "There's a hole in the bottom of the sea, there's a hole in the bottom of the sea, there's a hole, there's a hole...." Only now it's morphed into a nightmarish dirge: "There's a hole in the belly of the world, there's a hole in the belly of the world..." and the hole really is at the very bottom of the sea, five thousand feet down; and through it, our planet is discharging into our oceans at a rate of hundreds of thousands of barrels a day a fossil fuel treasure created over hundreds of thousands of years

We've literally poked a hole in our earth's skin, punctured its innards, and are now helplessly watching as its vital fluids gush into the planet's ocean mantle, threatening to despoil the very waters from which our living species once came and that is the source and substance of all life.

We are trying to plug the hole, but it is way too far down, way too vulnerable to pressure and cold for the bleeding to be staunched. Imagine open heart surgery on a patient at the bottom of a deep well where the doctors must operate as they stand around the well opening. Imagine tying the shoes of a running man after your hands and feet have been chopped off.

We will eventually (very eventually) find ways to plug the hole, after enormous environmental damage is wrought. But will we have learned the lesson? No, not the lesson about corporate greed or government duplicity or human obliviousness, but the one about hubris. The lesson whose moral is:

STOP POKING HOLES IN OUR EARTH!

more at link...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-r-barber/theres-a-hole-in-the-bott_b_585394.html

[ashling]

1. I always thought the sea would drain out

When I was a wee lad I thought that a hole in the bottom of the sea meant that the sea would drain out ,,, that's what happened in the cartoons.

[nashville_brook]

2. with the giant circling whirl down the drain...to the center of the earth.

[NYC_SKP]

3. There are 50,686 individual wells/bore holes in the Gulf.

I wish HuffPo or someone would do a more thorough presentation of the over-development of the Gulf of Mexico.

If I had time and skills, I'd put together a youtube or other presentation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8385057




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