With nuclear reactors broken by an earthquake and the long term disposal of nuclear waste on the cards we have yet another opportunity to rethink.
With the recent environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and the ongoing crime in the Niger Delta we have another chance to think again.
With hydraulic fracking polluting the water table with carcinogens we desperately drive to become energy independent perhaps it is time for a pause.
When we launch wars for oil to protect our supply of energy we should be considering alternatives to carnage.
With ocean gyres containing millions of tons of powdered plastic perhaps we need to reassess our environmental impact.
With the billions of tons of waste and pollutants we pump into the biosphere every year we could decide that an alternative approach is viable.
With Climate Change becoming an undeniable fact we could try and halt the countdown clock.
With fossil fuel energy costs heading only one way we could try to write a coherent energy policy.
When we suggest that perhaps it would be more prudent to stop and think we are branded "environmental facists" and that we want to ruin the economy for the sake of a few polar bears. The discourse has got so infantile that the real problems have been subjected to political interpretation.
The data shows we are in a mess.
The right are now hailing a "fossil fuel renaissance" as something positive, so:
1] Lets create a wasteland by strip mining for tar sands and shales.
2] Lets rip whole mountains apart for coal.
3] Lets pollute our fresh water supplies with hydraulic fracking.
4] Lets drill anywhere we can place a rig and the risks can go hang.
5] Lets throw trillions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air and see what happens.
6] Lets keep dumping our waste into the seas, rivers and land and see what nature can absorb.
Or
Find another way of doing business and stop this short-sighted madness
We have all the technology we need to stop ripping apart our planet in favor of renewable resources. We don't have to continue down this selfish road, we can change our behavior as humanities spread around the globe has ably demonstrated.
Even if we are wrong where is the harm? Are you willing to bet your grandchildren's lives that we are?
Changing the way we do things will create local employment rather than centralized off-shored monoliths and we will have a cleaner environment as a bonus.
Let us become stewards of the land not its violators.
Is this evil?
Is this insane?
Changing the way we treat our planet should be regarded in a positive light and not as some crazy fringe conspiracy theory.
Rather than fragmenting humanity into the haves and have nots our technology could benefit all.
I'm just saddened by the wanton ignorance of some.