As I was driving toward the Gulf yesterday, I started to feel the environment: a secluded inland sea, a mile deep, its floor carved with canyons, with warm, powerful currents. I was wondering how many days it would take a dolphin to swim across from Florida to Mexico.
The floor is open to discussion of solutions – and it always has been. I will invoke a bit of A Course in Miracles: “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.” I would like to hear what you think the problem is, and what you think the solution is. Or, skip the problem and go right to the solution.
In my view we’re not dealing with something that has happened, though – something is happening. That’s different. So we would need proposed solutions to something in motion. Part of the problem we face is a public relations team at BP that still has us convinced that the company produces organic salad, and if we are not careful that ideology will succeed in blaming President Obama for BP’s negligence. They sense the convenient blame point and will exploit it to the max, if allowed.
Quick survey:
When you took a shower this morning, did you use traditional soap (based on a vegetable oil or a fat, such as Bronner’s) or did you use a commercial bar soap (really a detergent, based on petroleum)? These are the kinds of simple choices we certainly can be making, old fashioned.