What a Great Nation America is! Envision and founded upon great ideals. If part of our nation suffers an injustice or just bad luck, we all feel it, especially in the digital age that has brought us closer together in many ways, on many levels. Worldwide, we share everything, information, drama, voyeurism, pain, happiness.
The Gulf is our problem. In our press, our dialogue with one another, in the stresses heaped open us by the loss of jobs, families struggling, personal and professional dreams put on hold, we tend to snap at one another. “Put blame where it belongs.” That is the saying, isn’t it? Regarding what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico, we MUST go beyond blame. We must think healing. We must feel it. We must see it.
Why do you go to the beach? Sure it’s for a vacation, or to play in the sand, or body surf in the waves or have fun at the various amusement parks at night. Every country in the world cherishes its beaches. Look at the condos there, the nightlife, the ads for the perfect getaway. BUT WHY? Behind all of that, it is THE OCEAN. Ocean is Origin. Ocean is life. Ocean is mystery of life. It is in us. We stare out at limitless expanse of water and we wonder, like we do when we look up at the stars.
The Gulf of Mexico is a stunningly beautiful, clear turquoise. Oil is spewing out by thousands of gallons as you read this, staining that turquoise brown from inside out, killing fish, whales, birds, their eggs, their progeny. Who knows what the long-term effects will be?
No profit is worth what is happening to our planet. No cutting corners. No hedging our corporate bets is worth any delay. This is OUR PLANET. Expediency to protect our Mother Earth, not hedging an investment, should be our ONLY focus.
Please take a minute over our Nation’s 234th birthday the next few days to think about this. It is not THEIR PROBLEM. IT IS OURS. IT IS YOURS. Because it is YOUR PLANET.
Please look out wherever you are at Mother Earth. It can be at the ocean, at a sunset, at a great tree, or simply at the color and symmetry of a flower.
–John Weiskopf
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