Website review: Beyond Propaganda -- In These Times
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meatbot rated 4 months ago- I think it's pointless to continue to point out the destruction that oil extraction creates as it does nothing to reduce our dependencies on oil. And to do that requires so much more communication and agreement that is possible at the present moment. Much of our infrastructure in the Western world still depends on oil for it's production and maintenance so we need to continue to fuel it with a plan in mind to make the switch over to sustainable technology, however long this takes. What we do with all this oil being refined from the earth NOW will determine what sort of future we have in place when the oil runs out. Renewable resources are still our best option and will only become the norm when people discover how to profit. In the mind of the great Mar Ket: Short term profit is more desirable than long term sustainability, "because by the time that plan comes to fruition I'll be dead anyways."
This is a great quote from the article which really put it into perspective for me. I'm a Canadian and I have not gone to see the development of the oil economy in northern Alberta. "The process of extracting and refining tar sands--also known as Canadian crude--involves strip-mining a 50,000-square-mile span of forest (approximately the size of Florida) located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. The region contains an estimated 175 billion barrels of recoverable oil."
That is A LOT of oil. Let's use it wisely.- I think it's pointless to continue to point out the destruction that oil extraction creates as it does nothing to reduce our dependencies on oil. And to do that requires so much more communication and agreement that is possible at the present moment. Much of our infrastructure in the Western world still depends on oil for it's production and maintenance so we need to continue to fuel it with a plan in mind to make the switch over to sustainable technology, however long this takes. What we do with all this oil being refined from the earth NOW will determine what sort of future we have in place when the oil runs out. Renewable resources are still our best option and will only become the norm when people discover how to profit. In the mind of the great Mar Ket: Short term profit is more desirable than long term sustainability, "because by the time that plan comes to fruition I'll be dead anyways."
- deide rated 4 months ago
- Tar sands extraction isn't just another hurdle for environmentalists to combat. It merely reveals a simple truth: when it comes to "being green," even the most publicly boastful of the oil corporations--such as BP--will keep their promises only as far as their bottom line allows. Without action, it's empty rhetoric.
