IN OUR GREED
Our earth is a wonderful gift.
We live in beautiful surroundings. Each of us has driven along winding and beautiful country roads; we have taken a swim in crystal blue water; we have soaked up the sun while resting on a sandy beach.
We have enjoyed boating off one of our coasts; climbed high in a spectacular tree; looked down on the hills and valleys of our country as we were engaged in air travel.
Many of us have watched the sparkling white snow fall on beautiful evergreens; walked in a light spring rain; hiked along seldom traveled trails through incredibly quiet and striking forests; and stared upward on a dark night to admire the beautiful heavens.
The calamity brought upon us by British Petroleum is only the most recent rape of the earth. In our eagerness for progress, our insatiable appetite for oil, our pursuit of the almighty dollar, and our disregard for the infamous “downside” of our greed, we are regularly, systematically, and predictably destroying much of what is good and wholesome in our lives.
No one company is to blame. All companies are participating in one way or another.
No one chief executive can be tarred and feathered.
No one government is responsible for what is happening.
Collectively, we encourage and permit the blind pursuit of profit.
We buy the products.
We use the resources.
We invest in the stocks.
WE THE PEOPLE… had better wake up!
