Back Into the Frying Pan; Part 1…
May 18, 2010
So sorry for the absence! So many things going on through the Winter but we’re finally back in our digs for the foreseeable future. Yayyyyyy!!!!
It seems there are some significant changes coming to our shores some for worse, some for better.
Of course, the news of BP’s unconscionable destruction of sea life in the Gulf is grim & I would expect a sizable drop in availability & rise in price of shrimp.
On the positive side is the Cape Wind farm approval and the obvious benefits such facilities provide.
Beyond the advent of and investment in sustainable & nonpolluting energy sources, projects like this can actually improve conditions for certain bivalve species, thus providing extended environs for those creatures & those further up the food chain (including Homo Sapiens).
Now, I try not to be political on this blog, and I’ve never before strayed into those waters here, but the devastation that’s hitting our waters has got to stop!
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are doing what they can to rescue the profits of scum like BP and Transocean at the expense of OUR future and the future of our young ones (though 2 of the most egregious apologists are Red Wing Friends of Big Business).
Even before the BP catastrophe (which might have been averted had the U.S. Minerals Management Service been doing their job instead of giving polluters awards & the green light to “Drill, Baby, Drill”) the Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone“, caused by flushing agribusiness products & wastes down the Mississippi River, was larger than the state of New Jersey!
Never mind the future of seafood lovers, everyones’ future is at stake & it’s time you made your voices heard.
Call your state representative, call your Congress people & your Senators. Heck, call OTHER state legislators & then get out there & support legislators that support cleaning up our lands & our waters. WE deserve it and our future generations deserve better from US.
