Long Term Effects of Global Warming Will Be Far Worse than Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe
Although the BP oil spill seriously threatens those who live along the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. intransigence on climate change threatens the entire world; a fact that is causing rising anger around the world. Yet the U.S. Congress continues to resist action on climate change on the basis that it will harm some U.S. economic interests, while ignoring our duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. fair share of safe global releases. For this reason, while the BP oil spill can be rightfully be understood as a disaster, U.S. Congressional inaction on climate change must be understood as a huge moral failure leading to an even greater disaster.
Oil Drilling Disaster Potential For Canada, Nigeria, Brazil and China
Four Possible BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come The disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly. It’s an arrow pointing toward future disasters. By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com June 22, 2010 Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, TomDispatch.com regular, and the author, most recently, of Rising [...]
Methane in Some Areas of Gulf of Mexico Now 1 Million Times Normal Level
As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday
Opinion: We Must Not Allow Oil Drilling in the Canadian Arctic
There is extreme danger in exploring for oil in the Canadian Arctic. Even with same-season relief well equipment at the ready, there’s no guarantee winds wouldn’t shift the ice during the short Arctic summer and make efforts to repair a well blowout impossible.
Not only would an oil spill in this region be catastrophic, but the response of some concerned with preventing this, as you’ll see below, falls short of what many of us believe is truly needed:
A moratorium on all offshore oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic, by all circumpolar nations, including Canada, pending the negotiation of an international treaty to protect its resources, its people and its environment.
How Big is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
View a shocking interactive map of the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophic oil spill and enter the name of your own city to see the shape of the spill area superimposed on a Google map of your area.
Another Affront to Our Intelligence: Oil Drilling Off BC Coast a Strong Possibility
BC Liberals favour offshore oil drilling. Big oil eyes B.C. coast, notwithstanding Gulf of Mexico spill. Marine mammals have made a remarkable recovery in this province, but that could be erased by a catastrophic oil spill.
Limits to Growth for Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Fish Farms and Our Big Economy Crucial
Our individual and collective human effort seems to have a momentum, a predictable trajectory that tracks a compulsive course from less to more and from little to bigger. In the progression from deep to deeper and from some to many, our technology increases in sophistication, our problems rise in complexity and our risks multiply in tandem. So far we have been able to race just ahead of catastrophe. But this basic strategy is an invitation to eventual calamity, as the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico attests, as our mining pollution proves and as our fish farm problems confirm.
In the great scheme of things – should anyone feel confused about all that’s happening these days – we are presently engaged in the search for a fundamental sense of proportion and balance. This arduous process begins with global awareness. But it’s really about our inner growth and maturation, about our discovery of limits.
Moratorium on Offshore Drilling Across Top of North America Critically Important
It Could Happen Here: Canada should demand a moratorium on Arctic oil drilling until we’re certain it will be done safely – Article by Professor Michael Byers on the danger of drilling for oil in the fragile Arctic and how Canadian waters would be affected.
