Very well written Slick, as a race we need to address our foot print but because we have all been raised on a certain standard no one wants to step up and change. Even if global warming is "fake" as a society we have caused far to much damage to the earth at this point to ignore it.
If we lived in a world that valued honor and intelligence over money this would not be a problem, I hate bashing Capitalism but the over pursuit of fiscal wealth is a plague on this planet. A great example of this is the BP oil spill, as a race we have invested copious levels of money and infrastructure into the collection of petroleum products but very little into safe guards to protect from disasters. Why? Because there is no profit in cleaning up a spill, the only time it becomes profitable is when people start loosing money (such as Florida tourism). At this point people finally realize that maybe we should have safe guards in place but by then it's to late and our ecosystems are damaged beyond repair.
The current technology employed to skim oil from water will not work in applications that include areas with ice. This could spell very bad news for northern drilling and ecosystems but VERY little advancement in the technology is happening because there is only money to be made when a real problem occurs. Even if global warming isn't real we still need to loosen the grip that fossil fuels have on us, as Slick stated the benefits outweigh the downfalls greatly.
Levi
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