Will this be our legacy?
I've written to my public officials asking what they have done every day to stop this armageddon in the waters of the Gulf and beyond. I have asked myself why, why has politics and power that so corrupt our nation with the idea that we NEED OIL still exists. We are addicted to it. Plain and simple. And with the addiction comes the consequences, the innocent die. This bird, like so many thousands, like so many thousands of dolphins and fish, was only guilty of living there in the place where the oil lies. What will it take for this country to stop and say we need to change our addictive habits of cheap energy? At what cost is it to us? There are solutions. But the people in charge don't want the renewable energy because it doesn't make them as much profit. Well is money everything? How about the quality of life sustained on this earth. We need to stop and take a long look at our future. What will our legacy be? Will we decide to do what Americans have done in the past when there looked like there was nothing they could do? NO? YES? People stepped up with vision, with motivation, with guts and came up with thinking "outside the box" and made new inventions that took us to different levels of living. Now we have to do it again. Only this time it has to be with renewable energy. That would be a wonderful legacy. People say one has to hit bottom before they reach for the top. Have we truly reached bottom?