I think the oil spill in the gulf is too much. It's too depressing, too demoralizing, too apocalyptic. Our final stab into the heart of mother earth. Or something.
This is one of the first times I am deliberately ignoring an important story, a weak defense mechanism against a crushing reality.
How can we keep ignoring the natural world? Is it that we're lazy? Selfish? Reluctant to give up our comfortable modern lives? Is the truth of it all too depressing?
Credible scientists say that in the future people will be amazed that we spent so much time and money on the Iraq war, when global warming was so much more important. IT'S NON-NEGOTIABLE. Nothing happens if you don't have a landbase. Countless lives are at stake. Countless ecosystems are at stake. Other credible scientists say it may be too late. And still we ignore it.
I'll try to write a more upbeat, casual blog next. Something about graduation. If the oil spill hasn't reached the Massachusetts shore yet.
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