tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post20767869705501261..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Are We Humans Or Ostriches?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-83285900464903649162010-08-21T03:39:35.222-07:002010-08-21T03:39:35.222-07:00Majia-
"The sad fact is that ego and greed t...Majia-<br /><br />"The sad fact is that ego and greed together produced this disaster [...]"<br /><br />Ego, greed, and a fantastically blind species unable to see its own massive and growing incompetence in altering the world's natural assets in vain efforts sold-to-all-of-us as being done to improve our surroundings. (This is why we drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.)<br /><br />Take a look around, fools.<br /><br />Both Ostriches and Humans can be herded, like Lemmings.<br /><br />And we're already off the edge of this most recent cliff.<br /><br />In the Eighteenth Century the historian Edward Gibbon in "The Decline and Fall [...]" noted that the Roman Empire had in it more than 120 million people, "more" -he noted for his Eighteenth Century readers- than the then current population of all Europe.<br /><br />In a faintly similar way, history is repeating itself.<br /><br />The collapse of human populations worldwide -has begun again-.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-10283115216125182562010-08-20T12:21:24.054-07:002010-08-20T12:21:24.054-07:00I'm afraid that is a charitable reading of man...I'm afraid that is a charitable reading of many humans. <br /><br />I posted a link to Washington's blog interview with Dr. Robert Bea at the Oil Drum and the first response by posters there was to discredit the source (i.e., Dr. Bea). After I established his credentials, the second response was to assert that he knows nothing about the Gulf geology. <br /><br />Are these people industry shills or does their arrogance stem simply from an over-inflated ego?<br /><br />The sad fact is that ego and greed together produced this disaster and appear to be impairing honest discussion about its scope and severity.Majia's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04941091700194936591noreply@blogger.com