I’m going to add this to the top of last night’s post rather than start a new one, mainly to preserve the comment thread. This is about the potential for an extinction event that is being discussed various places on the Internet; that event would be related to a giant methane bubble under the Gulf of Mexico that could rupture and create a mass die-off, as has happened at other times in geological (very very long) history.<\/p>\n
For the past couple of years I’ve written for The Ecologist<\/em> about another kind of extinction event — dioxin. One psychological advantage that I have is that since the early 1990s I’ve addressed global contamination with compounds that are indeed, actually killing many people prematurely, and are wrought with denial and lies.<\/p>\n What BP and the government are doing sounds entirely familiar and I am accustomed to the psychology of the deception, profit motive and legal\/mental\/media maneuvering.<\/p>\n I know from too much personal experience that the TV, newspapers, corporate PR departments and government officials are capable of spewing absolute total lies, then accusing anyone who doesn’t believe their lies of being crazy. (This is part of the story of why I am an astrologer, rather than working every day an environmental investigative reporter. If I’m going to do something that some people think is crazy, I may as well have more fun, be appreciated for my work and make a good living at it along the way.)<\/p>\n BP and the US government would be doing all of that without an extinction event on the horizon. Even your average normal worst ecological disaster in the world, or the 10th worst, would have them all scurrying like pigeons, shredding their memos and having lawyers cut up the bananas on their breakfast cereal, to make sure they don’t incur any additional liability.<\/p>\n Anyway this morning my former editor at The Ecologist<\/em>, Pat Thomas, saw our discussion here and sent me this article<\/strong><\/a>, which she rated as a decent piece of writing on the methane issue.<\/p>\n Before I quote the article, I want to say that as those involved on the holistic level of the issue, the psychology and the sociology of this, or the existential spiritual level (whatever you want to call it), we need to consider those dimensions of this potential as well. The methane megabubble may or may not “be true,” but the fact that our psyches have conjured it and have an attraction or attachment to the issue is worth considering.<\/p>\n When we address the theme of mass extinction we must also account for individual mortality and consider our relationship to it. When we notice vast lies we need to look at the lies we tell and the lies we believe. We need to account for how that methane bubble is inside of us<\/em>: the pressure of all that we, as individuals and as a society, hold down all the time and did long before April 20, 2010. And let’s not forget the Dr. Strangelove<\/em> scenario: the world is still rigged with various nuclear devices that could do as much damage to humanity — and I would note that both the Earth and humanity will survive, just in rather different forms.<\/p>\n Now, here is a basic explanation of the potential methane bubble under the Gulf of Mexico. This is an undated article from an online magazine called Helium.<\/em> I am not vouching for it: I am presenting it to you as a theory.<\/p>\n Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event<\/strong><\/p>\n by Terrence Aym<\/p>\n Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.<\/p>\n 251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world. [2]<\/p>\n 55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured, causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM<\/a>).<\/p>\n The LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]<\/p>\n Those subterranean seas of methane virtually reshaped the planet when they explosively blew from deep beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n Now, worried scientists are increasingly concerned the same series of catastrophic events that led to worldwide death back then may be happening again-and no known technology can stop it.<\/p>\n The bottom line: BP\u2019s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.<\/p>\n The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Last night’s post follows.<\/em><\/p>\n Here is something thought you should know about. This is the first I’m hearing of if. The assertion — if I understand this correctly — is that the sea floor is bubbling up, as in the whole sea bottom, under pressure from a methane bubble; which is analogous to a supervolcano like the one under Yosemite<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n I am left wondering a few things. One is how a methane bubble can push up seven miles of bedrock, under a mile of water. Another is what this has to do with the well blowout, which seems like a normal enough blowout except for the depth. How did the blowout cause the presumed bubble? Was it by disturbing the pressure down there? The third is the relationship between the hole in the sea floor through which all the other oil is supposedly gushing, and the whole sea floor rising up like there’s a gas bubble. Last, if 96% of us are going to be extinguished, why not have a big orgy? (I’ve never needed the end of the world as an excuse for that…)<\/p>\n I personally don’t doubt that any of this is possible; I don’t doubt that there is a whole other version of events than we are getting on television. But if that is the case, then we should be able to assemble something from a combination of the bits that we know, observed facts that have percolated through, known geological facts, eyewitness reports and the astrology. In a comment below I have posted the chart. The chart is also contained in this article<\/strong><\/a>, which lists some of the asteroids and other minor planets involved in the incident — most of them on the cardinal cross.<\/p>\n We last had a Saturn-Uranus-Pluto configuration in the mid-1960s. It was intense though no, it did not involve the Aries Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m going to add this to the top of last night’s post rather than start a new one, mainly to preserve the comment thread. 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