Writing in The Guardian on the Gulf spill as a "hole in the world," Naomi Klein says: "Virtually all indigenous cultures have myths about gods and spirits living in the natural world. ... Calling the Earth ‘sacred' is another way of expressing humility in the face of forces we do not fully comprehend. When something is sacred, it demands that we proceed with caution." I'd like to extend this intriguing thought beyond smallish surviving cultures to most of the history of thought about the nature of the world and our place in it.
Gulf Coast
You, me and disasters in the deep sea
For those of us who live far away from the Gulf of Mexico, the oily videos and doomsaying headlines are getting to be a bit wearying and are drifting to the back of the news.
After all, we get stunned by the repetition after a while and in the end we can live with environ mental disaster as long as it hap pens elsewhere and as long as it doesn't really affect us. In this case, specifically as long as oil prices don't go up. So far so good, right?
Well, maybe not. Here's the other side of the story. Among the energy institutes, oil economists and other thinkers, the question is whether we have in fact come to the long-predicted tipping point with regard to oil production and prices.
From the Gulf Coast to English Bay: Protecting our oceans from Big Oil
Jun 9 2011 - 7:00pm
Jun 9 2011 - 10:00pm
Location
W2 Media Cafe
#250-111 W Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 16' 55.5636" N, 123° 6' 27.4464" W
See map: Google Maps
A Vancouver Book Launch for Antonia Juhasz's Black Tide
with Ben West, No Tankers campaigner with the Wilderness Committee
"Black Tide is riveting, infuriating, and incredibly important to understand the places, politics, and people who survived the Gulf oil disaster." --Rebecca Solint, author of A Paradise Built in Hell.
Contact name:
Ben West
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Not Rex's Humberto: Oil in the water, blood on the beach
In this week's Not Rex spot, Humberto says the EPA should act like the DEA and bust the corporate criminals who killed 10 workers and poisoned the ocean.