Of Oil and Water

unbelievable...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/30/AR2010053002195.html?hpid=topnews

so let me get this straight
we can go to moon
we can build a bomb to nuke every damn planet/bacteria/virus on this condemned planet
we can wipe off entire forests, entire wastelands and marshes
we can make planes and robots which can go and excavate mars and find water there
we can make tallest buildings which defy gravity and blur sense of real with illusion

but we cannot fix a damn hole???

the keepers of green dollar bills and gold coins forget that this planet belongs to none, that it is a gift from ancestors to be passed on to coming generations...oil companies in particular have had a long tradition of devaluing human life for monetary gains and establishment of their world order... Atrocities by Shell in Nigeria and their role in death of Ken Saro, destruction of Ecuadorian rainforests by Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Indonesia... the list goes endless... I am reminded of a scene from the movie 'Blood Diamond' in which an african old man thanks god that the white people came and found diamonds... n then he wonders it could have been worst if they had found oil instead...

they keep on harping upon our dependence on oil... that there is no possible solution to circumvent our dependence on remains of algae and sea weed spread on ocean floor over period of billions of years...
seriously??? is finding such a solution that complicated...

for starters, why not imagine a place, what if there was never such an oil for us to use at first place? i believe in resourcefulness of mankind and m utterly sure that instead of keeping on burning wood and coal, we would have found a sound solution to this problem... maybe too many windfarms, too many geothermal vents...

Yeah US is leading on research for alternative methods of fueling... but it is stumbling... the right winged lunatic fringe of this country is totally devoid of any sense of real and it is they who are pushing this country on a brink of catastrophic edge... to me it almost seems that for India and rest of the world, there is not much time left... the sense of urgency to secure viable, long termed energy solutions which can overcome the dismayed projections of future need to be there and that too right now... What sort of planet are we planning to gift our coming generations? I pledge to do whatever it is in my power to make my impact on this planet as harmless as possible...

this is one of the saddest event I am witnessing in my lifetime...