Beyond Pollution

If you put a few single-celled organisms in a test tube with fresh clean water and some food, they will flourish there for a while.  But the test tube is finite and eventually they or their progeny will die, poisoned by their own waste.  Our beautiful blue mother earth is much like that test tube.  Oh sure, it seems very vast.  But, in the end, it too is finite.  There are limits on our waters, our air, our land.  But we seem determined to poison ourselves and our mother.  Look out into the cosmos, there are many dead planets.  Must we join them?  There are ways to keep the earth fresh and clean.  Are we concentrating our efforts, our intelligence towards that end?  Or are we like those single-celled organisms in that test tube, doing so well in good times but unknowing, uncaring, blind to the inevitable end?  Too many politicians and others in positions of power are really saying the equivalent of "I've got mine, so screw you."  They won't say it out loud of course, not for the public, no.  Maybe they don't even say it to themselves but it is there.  They give so much lip service to loving and caring.  But is it sincere, or just more bull, more poison for our test tube?  Have you seen the TV ads that BP is running?  The ones where their CEO says how sorry he is.  Yeah, well thanks buddy but sorry won't feed the kittycat.  How BP has mounted the largest cleanup in U.S. history?  Yeah, well it's the largest defiling of the Gulf of Mexico in U.S. history too and the "cleanup" is pitiful and inadequate.  Cleaning up your own mess?  Gee buddy, thank you ever so, most grateful I am.  And all the money that BP is spending on TV and other outlets to clean up their image.  Wouldn't it be better spent on cleaning up the Gulf?  This is Beyond Petroleum, this is Beyond Pollution, this is nuts.