America’s Soil and Ocean Attacked by BP’s Oil Catastrophe
It is a shame that all the efforts made by environmentally conscious groups and socially responsible people were obscured and overshadowed by one accident on the off shore oil platform on April Earth day 2010.
This accident was just waiting to happen. The corporations knew this was inevitable. They knew the risks, they knew the dangers – yet they proceeded to move forward. They knew of the consequences of an oil spill or flow. They knew it will damage the earth and it’s natural resources for over 100 years or 8 generations!
Imagine the grand children of your grand children. Imagine them fighting for their own health and well-being simply because of corporate greed. Corporate greed for oil overshadowed any risk of health or fatality aspects, they simply did not care. And now, here we are – unable to stop millions of gallons of raw oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
As an ECOAGENT I have been present in many oil spills in the Amazon Rainforest, being the big spill/flow the one made by Texaco during the 70th’s.(four times the amount of exxon valdes spill in Alaska) Even to this day, Exxon hasn’t paid a cent and hasn’t admitted any wrong doing.
The indigenous people that live in this area of the Amazon Rainforest are mostly dead (60% percent of indigenous people form the tribes in this area are gone). Those that are still alive there today are suffering from the most horrendous diseases known to man; cancer, leukemia, nervous break downs, genetic malformations, depression etc. On top of that, they are living in an area that is incapable of producing healthy crops.
During this 16 billion dollar law suit from the people of the amazon against the texaco/chevron flow/spill, Pablo Fajardo the lawyer representing the amazonian defense once said, “even if We win the law suit still 16 billion dollars won’t be enough to clean the area”, the same goes for the Exon Valdes spill/flow, now imagine this latest British petroleum spill/flow in the American gulf what kind of tragedies will bring forth against the American people and against the world for 100 yeras or nearly 6 generations to come?
Who will defend us, America needs a hero, the world needs a hero, mother earth needs a hero, where is the hero?….
Well in my opinion the hero is you, the hero is me, the hero is all of us, the citizens of the world need to defend our mother earth. We came from her womb and we will go back to mother earth some day, let your voice be heard, tell you friends, tell you family, and one day the law will change and our economic system will learn to respect mother earth rights and the economic system will learn how produce economic benefits while protecting mother earth and its off springs like plants animals and humans as well
To check the status of the oil spill you can visit www.surfrider.org
Thank You.
-EcoAgents
