America is Killing Itself

[pippin]

Matthew Engel: Road to Ruin
Friday, October 24, 2003
The Guardian

"Under Bush, the lack of interest at every level has at last come into balance. The US is equally unconcerned globally, federally, statewide and locally. . .

The US is in denial about what is, beyond any question, potentially its most dangerous enemy. While millions of words have been written every day for the past two years about the threat from vengeful Islamic terrorists, the threat from a vengeful Nature has been almost wholly ignored. Yet the likelihood of multiple attacks in the future is far more certain. . . .America produces a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the population has risen by 100 million since 1970 and when an area three times the size of Britain was recently opened up for mining, drilling, logging and road building, no one took much notice. What does the Bush administration do? It ignores all attempts to curb environmental damage. In a major investigation that took him from the Salton Sea in California to Crooked Creek in Florida, Matthew Engel reports on how America is ravaging the planet.

And equally one is struck by the sheer horrendousness of what man has done in the century or so since he seriously got to work over here. In the context of ages, the white man is merely a hotel guest in this continent: he has smashed the furniture and smeared excrement on the walls. He appears to be looking forward to his next night's stay with relish. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1069883,00.html

[Octafish]

1. Great article. Destroying the planet not the fault of every "white man"

It is the fault of the greedy and their minions. My fear is that it is part and parcel of the BFEE Master Race Master Plan.

If Bushler and the other toadies he fronts for can make earth uninhabitable for all but the lucky few who get reservations in their secret underground bomb-proof air-conditioned redoubt in Paraguay (or wherever), they will rid themselves of the world's "surplus population" Charles Dickens wrote about 140 years ago without the need for war. Then, when the dust settles, they can crawl out from their holes and re-populate the world with their brethren, the cockroaches.

BTW: The Brits are pretty fast at blaming America. Where do they think the BFEE started?

[DemExpat]

2. Bush and Co. will have to declare Mother Nature an Evil Terrorist

and the next War on Terror will be instigated....

Thanks for posting this article,

DemEx

[Bandit]

3. Earth First ~ We'll get to the other planets later

Sad but True but try and convince someone to stop watching surviver long enough to even look out the window. I bet half the people don't even know what a bird sounds like.

[IrateCitizen]

4. I'd say we have 2 generations, tops, to address this

And that's probably being generous.

Try reading The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki if you want to see an even more in-depth exploration of the way in which we have ravaged the earth.

In all, a very excellent and thought-provoking article. It just makes me shake my head as to how so many people can just IGNORE how the earth is beginning to strike back against us....

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Additional reading

"A Green History of the Earth" by Clive Ponting.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Additional reading

"Earth in the Balance", by Al Gore