This letter is intended for all the leaders of the world, whether they be governmental, corporatist or spiritual in nature.
Our planet is dying. I know we have all heard it before. I know it sounds so green to say. I urge you to look at the statement for it's value, not it's cliche. We are killing the planet that we live on. No amount of meetings, tax breaks, hearings, market share, profit margin, elections or any such thing is going to stop this.
No amount of strategic planning will help you turn you a profit when we are wiped out of existence.
Most recently, we have punched a hole in the earth's crust, causing the very lifeblood of our planet to be spewing out into our oceans. If the planet were a human body, we essentially just poked a hole through the stomach lining and allowed the acids to gush out into the body cavity.
Can't you see the severity of this situation?
We don't have the time for you people, whoever you are, to keep bickering about profit margins and liability. We need to stop killing the planet.
It needs to be fast, and concise. We need to cease drilling for oil. We need to start making electric cars, putting in place actual usuable public transit systems, and rewarding companies for utilizing technology for allowing employees to telecommute.
I don't want to hear any nonsense about this sort of change taking time. It doesn't have to. Just be done with it. No more oil. When someone is quitting smoking, they almost ALWAYS fail if they try nicotine replacement or just cutting back. Cold turkey is, and always will be, the most effective.
It will hurt at first. I know this firsthand. I support a family of five on one income from a job that I have to drive 25 miles one way to. Without driving, there is no way to get to work. I get this. What I am proposing is that we stop the Dance of Death we are doing with oil and find a way to turn profits, send people to work AND stop trashing our planet.
It will be hard and trying, as change always is. But it is better than being dead. Much like the smoker analogy, there is only one sure cure to our cancer. And that is death. Isn't it better to avoid the cancer in first place, with that kind of prognosis?
Has anyone even considered the ramifications of taking the oil OUT OF THE EARTH in the first place?
For all we know oil is what lubricates the techtonic plates. The moving parts in my car need lube, and I can't see why the moving parts in our planet wouldn't either. What happens when you take the oil away and the plates don't have as smooth a ride?
Has anyone considered that perhaps we are taking so much oil out of the earth that the change in weight distribution could very well have catastrophic effects, considering the factors that determine our rotation around the sun and our revolution on our own axis?
Is it possible that the climate changes we are seeing today are just as heavily caused by the internal damage we are doing as well as the external? I don't know. But neither do you, and that's kind of the point.
We are tinkering with the Earth's central nervous system, and we have no idea what that is going to do, or has already done, to it.
We have no business meddling in this sort of thing. We aren't even at the very tip of qualified to understand the ramifications, much less be able to deal with them.
Every corporation, country, people, religion and community has a stake in this. It's time to start fighting together to save our home, instead of fighting with each other over who gets the most out of that home. If we can't come together as one world and one people to ensure our continued existence, all these other petty squabbles are pointless. Who CARES who wins the next election, the best drilling rights, or the most lucrative contract, if the human species drills and burns and pokes and prods itself out of existence?