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These are intense times. Reading the comments in LiveBlog #18 is almost overwhelming. With an event of this magnitude (well beyond anything we have ever done to Mother Earth other than detonation of nuclear bombs) our ability to hold its immensity in our minds may be impossible (for most of us).
I study permaculture and view the process of dealing with this in terms of zones. Zone 0 is our inner core where we deal with that which is most important, each zone further out is less and less critical to our well being.
An event such as this can pierce deep into Zone 0 in ways we may not fully comprehend for some time to come. Be ready to cycle through grief many times, get stuck in some places, repeat others.
Grieving for Earth will take lifetimes.
What does it mean to be a member of a race of beings that has the capacity to commit Geocide? How do we live with the fact that we are all culpable as participants in this world built with and dependent on cheap oil?
I view this as a Grey Swan event, a mixture:
- peak oil aware people knew that this was an eventuality as increasingly only deep and ultra deep drilling are left, making this a white swan event
- few could have imagined such a catastrophic geocidal scale event, its magnitude making it a black swan event.
I hope that one outcome of this oilshed event will be global recognition of peak oil and the TRUE risks that fossil fuels hold for us. As should follow from this would be the planning and implementation of Energy Descent Action Plans in every country.
Idealism, I haz it.
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The video feeds we are watching:
BP Video Feed
CNN Video Streams - Note: multi-view is sometimes unavailable.
PBS
BP videos - This link takes you to BP's home page, which contains a section called "Latest Video Updates from BP".
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola - Appears WKRG only has a still shot right now.
ABC 7 Chicago Live Video - Multiple ROV Camera Views (h/t to temptxan for the great find)
Courtesy of whitis here are two additional video links:
Primary feed.
Secondary feed.
From profgoose here is a list of links from The Oil Drum links on Newer Developments, etc.
Again, to keep bandwidth down please do not post images or videos.
Previous children diaries:
BP TKJSLMRP LiveBlog - Diary 18 - yawnimawke
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 17 - weatherdude
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 16 - politik
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 15 - RhymesWithUrple
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 14 - johnsonwax
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 13 - Middleagedhousewife
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 12 - nika7k
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 11 - Overseas
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 10 - conchita
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 9 - khowell
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 8 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 7 - miep
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 6 - Alkalinesky
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 5 - Liveblog
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 4 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 3 - sc kitty
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 2 - conchita
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 1 - khowell
Top Kill has begun! - Tomtech