Friday, June 11, 2010

So much depressing news, so little desire to attend to any of it. There's oil sludge that is changing our way of life, whether or not we realize it; there are wars and rumors of war, (as always, actually); there are vitriolic election campaigns expending enough resources to fix the problems the respective candidates are promising to fix once they are elected - yeah, right - just take that campaign money and fix the problems now, so much more useful and persuasive to me than all this mudslinging going on...

The oil issue may well prove to be as significant as major climate changes or shifting tectonic plates, at least insomuch as it's consequences impact human society and global ecology.

I have posited before and will repeat now that this planet will survive our follies; it is we who have the most to lose. Should our ecological system have to strike a new balance, it will. That balance need not include viability for human existence. How important will the bottom line of anyone's spreadsheets be then?