D. Grant Haynes

BP now burning vast pools of oil on Gulf surface

2010-06-12T18:07:00-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wH-3i1FZA

Oh, that's just great, BP. Mother Earth can always assimilate some more smoke. No wonder the Gulf States have such poor air quality this summer.

Folks, it just isn't getting any better in the Gulf of Mexico. And blind and greedy men are not seeing the light--even now.

This oil spill may be the beginning of 2012's anticipated Armageddon. Seriously. Many have been looking for signs of the end. This may be a precursor.

That oil is going to go around the Florida Keys and then get into the Gulf Stream that will carry it into North Atlantic fisheries--the Newfoundland Banks and everywhere. The Gulf Stream flows all the way to the coast of Scotland.

BP and greedy Americans may have mucked up the entire Western Hemisphere.

And still, even now, they want the drilling ban lifted so they can drill more wells in coastal waters, refine more oil, and make more money. Money to do what with? Their world will be dying or dead and they will not be able to take the money with them when they transition out of here. It is sheer madness.

I am no longer a member of this species. I renounce membership in the human race. They are insane and I am ready to part company with them all.

D. Grant Haynes

Maddow on GOP hypocrisy re: BP oil spill

2010-06-11T00:28:06-07:00

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Maddow on BP negligence

2010-06-09T23:31:29-07:00

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And the crude oil continues to gush on day 22 of unprecedented BP Deepwater Horizon disaster

2010-05-12T22:54:00-07:00

(For reference, the pipe is 21 inches in diameter.)

Alien world?

2010-05-08T04:06:00-07:00

Alien world? Alien, indeed, for creatures of the Gulf of Mexico that are floundering and dying in choking crude oil now coming ashore in Louisiana. Pea soup smog presided over an oil slicked and dying Gulf of Mexico Friday afternoon--an altogether fitting commentary on man's blindness, self-centeredness, and greed. Men, nations and worlds are all subject to the universal cosmic law of karma. Modern industrial man will, both individually and collectively, get his--reap what he has sewn.

D. Grant Haynes

How many gallons of BP crude oil went into the Gulf of Mexico while we slept? Counter was on 4,089,564 gallons May 8 at 11:50 PDT.

Maddow on long-term effects of an oil spill

2010-05-06T00:08:49-07:00

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Olbermann on BP safety record

2010-05-05T01:01:27-07:00

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Burning Transocean rig sinks, releasing 336,000 gallons crude oil daily into already-polluted Gulf of Mexico

2010-04-23T01:24:00-07:00

Transocean's burning Deepwater Horizon rig before it sank

As if to place an exclamation point onto what I had written about Earth Day 2010, a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has sunk and 336,000 gallons of crude oil are pouring out of the well daily into the beleaguered waters off Louisiana--already one of the most polluted coastal areas in North America.

Thanks, greed hounds and environmental rapists, for again reminding a complacent Americans of the dangers of oil rigs off our coastlines as Obama's proposal for greatly expanding such activity is being accepted without so much as a peep from most so-called environmentalists.

D. Grant Haynes

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/23/oil.rig.explosion/

Earth's day will come only when men and their defiling machines are relics of the past

2010-04-22T11:03:00-07:00

The first meaningful Earth Day will come when men and their destructive technology are rusting, deteriorating relics from another time.

Until such time, all the rest is so much falderal about nothing--a feeble attempt by a few to tap into the collective guilt of the many and sell posters, tee shirts, and trinkets on the side.

Earth Days mean nothing to the politicians, industrialists, and assorted greed hounds that dominate every industrialized society on the planet.

These evil men continue to destroy ecosystems and life forms at an accelerating pace, even as their public relations arms churn out an Earth Day press release or two each April.

D. Grant Haynes

Indians more alarmed about global pollution than greedy, blind Americans

2010-01-03T22:15:00-07:00

(From the Times of India)

Climate change far worse than thought before

3 January 2010, 12:09pm IST

NEW DELHI: Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of the 2,500-odd IPCC scientists have found climate change is progressing faster than the worst-case scenario they had predicted... .

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Climate-change-far-worse-than-thought-before/articleshow/5406955.cms

Even the Indians with their unimaginable population and poverty pressures will come to their senses about global pollution before greedy, self-centered, and wholly hedonistic Americans do.

Of course the global pollution crisis is worse than business-as-usual capitalists and their sycophantic bureaucratic followers in Congress will admit.

I, personally, have learned that there is nowhere left to run in North America to escape choking, killing air pollution. I've tried every quadrant.

We are all screwed now for following the siren songs of the business community that told us for the last 50 years that more and bigger was always better.

How many times was I told in my youth, "well, you can't stop progress and that building, (or strip mall or paper mill or coal plant or whatever) represents progress."? Far too many times.

And far too many times did I accept the lie of open-ended economic growth and industrial prosperity as a panacea when I should have, rather, sought to do something to save my planetary home while I was still young and while there was still time.

I should have possessed the cajones to become a radical activist who devoted his life, however short or long, to an attempt to stop the "progress" that I knew, even then, was poisoning the future home of my unborn children and grandchildren.

Such a course of action would have been more honorable, by far, than the teaching career I chose--one in which I whiled away my years seeking to please unimportant little pissant public school principals and superintendents while keeping my actual interests and sentiments to myself lest I fail to see a teaching contract renewed the next spring. What do those contracts mean to me today?

D. Grant Haynes

Man's rape of Gaia unrelenting

2008-10-07T22:13:00-07:00

25% of Wild Mammal Species Face Extinction

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
October 7, 2008

BARCELONA, Oct. 6 -- At least a quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here Monday.

The new assessment--which took 1,700 experts in 130 countries five years to complete--paints "a bleak picture," leaders of the project wrote in a paper being published in the journal Science. The overview, made public at the quadrennial World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), covers all 5,487 wild species identified since 1500. It is the most thorough tally of land and marine mammals since 1996... .
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The human species (Homo sapiens) is the primary culprit in the destruction of the Earth, her envelope of life-giving air, her waters, and a myriad of innocent creatures over whom no deity has given man hegemony or dominion.

The longer I am here, the more I despise my own kind.

Of the damned human race, Mark Twain wrote the following in his "Letters From the Earth":

"And so I find that we have descended and degenerated, from some far ancestor (some microscopic atom wandering at its pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perchance) insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, down the long highway of smirch less innocence, till we have reached the bottom stage of development (namable as the Human Being). Below us, nothing."

I am inclined to agree with Twain.

D. Grant Haynes

Five feet high and rising

2008-09-15T15:02:00-07:00

Hurricane Ike Shows Futility of Building on Barrier Islands

FOXNews

By Clara Moskowitz

As Hurricane Ike pummeled the Texas coast this weekend, the only thing standing in the way was a thin stretch of land called Galveston Island... .

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What no major news organization in the United States--most especially FOXNews--elects to discuss or report in their hurricane coverage is the patently obvious: World climate is changing and sea levels are rising because of man's ongoing destruction of his environment. Coastal cities are, in the final analysis, doomed.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in February 2007 that world sea levels had risen 3.3mm a year between 1993 and 2006, and that mankind can expect an 88cm rise by the year 2100.

Clearly, no logical reason exists for men to continue to rebuild cities and towns that cling to life at or near sea level because the sea will inundate all such settlements in time.

Each hurricane storm surge--each rout of men from their ultimately transitory little clusters of structures and ribbons of streets and highways along a coastline--will become more severe.

There is no reversing the polar ice and continental glacier meltdowns now underway. Nature will inexorably claim her own again--along the Gulf Coast--along the Atlantic Seaboard--anywhere else on the surface of the earth where land and sea meet.

New Orleans should not have been rebuilt in its present location after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The battle to keep the Gulf of Mexico out of a city, parts of which are below sea level, is a futile one.

Texas' Galveston Island with its highly romanticized sea wall is living on borrowed time too. While the ravages of 2008's Hurricane Ike may be repaired in Galveston, the next major hurricane to strike Galveston in two years-or five years-or 20 years--will inevitably wreak more havoc than Ike did because tomorrow's unnamed storm will have a few more centimeters of Gulf water to his or her advantage.

Macabre cemeteries with flood water liberated caskets bobbing stygian-like, as in Orange, Texas, after Ike, will become commonplace along the Gulf Coast in other Septembers as the galloping disaster that is industrial man's climate folly diminishes our shores and options.

Meanwhile, another generation of young Americans whose caskets may someday be launched into the same Gulf waters, will bravely adopt the current Republican neocon mantra--that there is no proof climate change is related to man's activities. These young capitalists will aspire to establish careers and buy homes in Galveston or New Orleans, pretending all is well as they jostle for a few more years of greedy excess.

D. Grant Haynes

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