When will they ever learn?

Well, it looks like the oil heads are at it once again.  They are turning global catastrophe into the shortest of short term gains by rushing to claim all of the oil and natural gas rights under the melting Arctic ice cap.  That's right, they are intent on getting the last drops of oil and natural gas available on the planet and pumping it into the atmosphere, customers be damned!

This race to the top is really about the bottom being pulled out from under every life form on the planet because as any person not under the hypnotic spell of the Paris Hilton media slight-of-eye will understand the answer to global climate change is not the burning of more fossil fuels.  Regardless of where they are found or how much of them are left to be exploited, we can not fill up our tanks and drive away from the problem.  What fuelish logic do these scientists apply to convince the governments of Russia and the United States to invest citizen dollars to prove that these resources belong to the corporations residing in one country or another?

But it may be the Goddess of natural lubricants who gets the last laugh on this one.  The leaders of the American oil junkies in the US Congress have been arguing since 1994 about how much power the Law of the Sea Treaty gives to the United Nations.  For 13 years they have been unable to ratify this treaty that over 150 other nations have agreed to and now they may have put American oil addicts at risk of losing their daily petroleum fix in the very near future .  Just the thought of going through fossil withdrawal has started to take its toll on even the most stalwart servants of the environmental movement.

I'm talking about Stuart Brand, James Lovelock and Hugh Montefiore and others who are advocating nuclear power as the safe alternative to reducing CO2 emissions. Soon they and their followers, scared out of their wits by the thought of a world without petroleum, will be advocating along with the oil slick representatives in Washington for liquefied coal plants and increased investments in clean coal technology.  If we get scared enough maybe we can even get the autotrophic auto heads in Detroit to come up with a versatile sports van for soccer moms that runs on medical waste!  That way when little Jacob or Emily breaks their ankle mom can fill up while the tots get their X-rays.

With geoscientists plunging ahead convincing corporations and governments to pour money into extracting more oil and natural gas, and old guard environmentalists calling for massive increases in water use for nuclear energy while more mounds of virulent waste gets generated, we have our planetary work cut out for us all.  Our best minds and passionate scientists are throwing in the towel and taking the deadly way out.  That is why we can not and we will not stop advocating for investments in energy efficiency and renewable power.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to get us out of this mess but it sure appears that they and their kindred spirits are doing everything they can to keep us in the biggest one of all!