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i and enter the gulf late every spring most of the pollutants come from agricultural runoff and consist of pesticides and herbicides apparently the higher price of corn has enticed farmers to grow more this has increased the amount of effluents because corn needs a lot of fertilizer etc to grow i d seen some doom n gloom comments there from people who d rigthfully been disappointed with the continued degradation of our oceans here s what i said in my comment there begin comment part of this evil is the attitude that it won t affect me personally yes this is more or less apolitical an outgrowth of unregulated consumerism the results of centuries of overconsumption and pollution will be starvation and death slow misery it s believed throughout much of the us that individuals bear no responsibility for the fates of those whom their decisions affect it s simply easier to live in denial than to confront the collective impact that our individual decisions make i d be very cautious in proclaiming a message of gloom and doom people will simply turn off if 1 they think their actions will make no difference and 2 the standards of change and perfection are crafted too high people need to know that even a few little changes can make a big difference this is the flipside of the large negative collective impact that individual decisions can make if people are subjected to scorn for being anything less than vegetarians who ride their bikes and don t use fossil fuels the target audience will not identify with the environmentalist or the alternative model they are offering people need small tangible steps which they re taking though they are coming at a pace far too slow to stop all damage this is in large part due to the anti regulatory chicago school of economics viewpoint that predominates still if you want worse look back at 1880s america change and hope for a better world are possible unless we just give up and abandon the possibility of change which is tantamount to letting evil win end comment taking no action to counter growing environmental problems will lead to predictable outcomes like an ever growing dead zone or more methane or more flattened mountains i guess it s just human nature to believe we can get away with doing what comes easily hopefully people will discover that the benefits of making the right choices will help eacch of us enough to justify the additional effort or cost individual choices collective impact clearly there s a major disconnect between what your average american does and the eventual impact on the environment of millions of individual decisions rolled together to be environmentally accountable people need to assume responsibility for the impact of their choices one marginally bad decision to pour some medicines in the toilet for example might not in itself compromise an environmental threat but when millions of people choose to pour pharmaceuticals into the water or when pharmaceuitical companies are allowed to manufacture products which don t decompose in the human body the environmental effect is massive as it turns out municipal water purification processes can t eliminate certain anti depresssants and other medicines from the water unless you plan to drink bottled water which also causes an environmental cost as the bottles are rarely recycled you ll end up drinking some of these pharmaceutical ingredients in countless american municipalities and just where is government in all this over the past few decades politicians have grown to see regulation as the enemy of business growth of course it s also no coincidence that the corporations that stand to gain the most from inadequate pollution controls through lobbying at all levels of government corporations have greatly increased the scope and effectiveness of their efforts to get laws passed and regulations overturned or at least unenforced political economy republicans seem particularly predisposed to urge the regulatory standards be relaxed and enforcement made more lax over the bush years it s a open secret that the epa and other federal bodies have been led by former or did they never really leave their jobs executives in the industries that they purport to regulate officials responsible for mining safety come from mining companies fda from the pharmaceutical industry etc how can an adequate regulatory environnment emerge in a government run by businessmen environmental reports were edited to remove evidence of global warming scientists who didn t agree with the politicians in charge demoted and censored for the past eight years it seems as if truth has been victimized by corporate agendas intent on avoid the costs associated with regulatory standards under the chicago school of economics which now forms the basis of our politicians thinking government regulations and their enforcement are an inhibitor to economic activity our leaders believe that what is good for the economy is good for society what makes some people rich is thought to help all people which simply isn t the case perhaps as sea levels rise and the inequities of the chicago school are more fully grasped americans will realize the deconstruction of the regulatory environment is a curse for all but the richest to whom a great deal of wealth has recently been accumulated not mentioned in the supposed tradeoff of jobs for environmental standards are all the benefits of sustainable economics in the desire to secure short term profits longer term sustainability is sacrificed greed is a hallmark of new capitalism which bears a lot of socialist instincs when it comes to protecting the housing market for instance it s the nature of corporate profitability to want constant increases in the share prices which sadly are far more likely to chart a unsustainable course towards a massive boom followed by massive bust bottom line is that government must do a better job regulating companies are hard wired to want to exploit ever larger amounts of natural resources at lower and lower cost and greater profitability all too often government allows private entities to lease land at sub market rates subsidizing the private sector at least the part that relies on governmental subsidies and effective lobbying to get for free what other companies must fairly earn already the economic consequences of inadequate regulatory enforcement are showing up as environmental scars mountains levelled by big coal in appalachia perhaps no better example exists of how the failure to enforce the laws clean air and clean water has brought extensive permanent environmental destruction simply by following the laws big coal s odious mountaintop removal processes would have been stymied and countless mountains saved i don t think it s communistic to say that destroying those mountains is wrong sure they re private property but that doesn t mean their owners should be able to do whatever they want with them in its ugliest form property rights are absolute property owners get total unquestioned authority over their possessions in the same way some humans were viewed during the slavery period i don t think corporations are human a common misperception channeled by adherents to the friedman s chicago school surely what some corporations have done would warrant a jail sentence a punishment which denies someone their freedom just who s been to jail in enron s case for ass logn as corporations can appear to be accountable they can duck responsibility often they will claim that they are simply serving their stakeholders employees suppliers vendors and customers to rationalize whatever environmental shortcuts they take as it turns out environmental justice is in large part based on economic justice as long as exploitation of public resources rewards the few at the expense of the many there will be ecological consequences changing core values the world of the future must contend with the lingering aftereffects of the overuse of carbon based energy by the america and countries eager to follow its model the more fossil fuels we use the more co2 accumulates in the atmosphere the more co2 the more heating will occur although temperatures will not follow a straight line average temperatures might also be slow to move but an average created by combining extreme hot and cold will hide the true extent of the climate s radicalization decisions that millions of people make do add up collective action is needed the current and future status of the planet s ecology reflects the scientific amalgamation of individual actions and mechanical processes millions of combustion engines running simultaneously are belching out a staggering combined output of billions of pounds of greenhouse gases a cause and its indeliable consequence are as interconnected as the effect of what we do as individuals on the environment there s a childish rush limbaugh like pride in bad environmental stewardship which needs to go before americans can confront the situation they re in global warming deniers exist because it s simply easier to ignore the consensus of the scientific community than to accept what one does makes a collective and combined impact altering one s actions as an individual forms the prerequisite for societal change yet greening has emerged as a method to promote more commercialism in our society we are told to go on shopping and that we can make a difference by buying green and we can it s just that the consumerist portion of greening has come to dominate the need for change now to shop for environmentally responsible products allows us to continue to live a consumption oriented lifestyle and takes less from the environment still we must learn to consume less to live simply so that other can simpyl live until we can rid ourselves of the idea that consuming is the route to happiness we are bound to focus on satisfying our wants and cravings especially once they are masterfully converted into needs by the marketing establishment which surrounds us 24 7 365 from an increasingly younger age what we really need is a change in our values and principles that makes the advancement of human and social capital more valuable than the accumulation of monetary capital as long as we re hyper capitalist or pretend to be as we bail out mortgage investors and spend our way into inflation the individual s right to make money eclipses the social good we face particular environmental hazards because we ve come to equate environmental regulation with higher prices until we choose an alternative value system one that values social capital as much as monetary capital our society will value individual choices as they are manifested in what reflects our base consumerist instincts ever present commercialization has shaped how we see ourselves according to what we buy rachel corrie killed by an israeli bulldozer trying to save a palestinian house said that we are more than the sum of our choices of what to buy petropolitics bush is ready and willing to terminate the congressional moratorium on coastal drilling which was supported by his father s 1991 executive order banning offshore drilling responding to the higher price of gas bolstered with republican political support americans by a slim majority support more drilling see the three biggest myths the bush administration wants you to believe about offshore drilling by faiz shakir the progress report on alternet the ultimate beneficiaries of expanded drilling will be the companies who drill and sell the oil what nyu economist nouriel roubini calls privatization of the profits the risks of coastal drilling are immense last week over 160 000 gallons of oil had spilled into the mississippi stopping barge traffic and requiring drinking water on which so many communities along the river regularly depend where it s not too polluted to be trucked in likewise we taxpayers will have to pay for the cleanups roubini s socialization of losses either through indirect impacts on the economy or lost tourist revenues the shocking dismemberment of the abusively delayed valdez verdict shows that the courts will side with big oil rather than their victms i guess if the spill isn t where you go or near property you own or affecting your job you think you ll be just fine at least until the new resources dry up well perhaps or the price of oil could continue to go up despite the drilling and all the environmental risks it brings due to a rise in global demand our major oil companies operate on global market prices to reduce prices globally supply must outpace demand globally not at all likely just how immune are we from the consequences of ecological disaster which always acccompany the transport and production of oil i d venture that none of us are more than a few degrees of separation apart from the environmental consequences of our dependency on oil while we may not be directly impacted we will know those who are and the spectre of climate radicalization means hotter temperatures will likely brew stronger storms drier droughts and worse flooding does one person s use of oil contribute to the intensification of a hurricane to the formation of a tornado just a little bit stronger than would have otherwise formed in a complex system of interactions we do not know how one input will impact the overall system we are led to believe that the crisis is the product of undersupply despite the fact that oil and natural gas companies aren t drilling on some 68 millions acres of federal land which last time i checked belonged to the american people so what have we got in exchange higher oil prices today exxon announced earnings of some 11 billion for the quarter which still wasn t enough to placate wall street greed has no limits the more these companies make the more they must make so with 68 million acres already under lease the republicans want to give oil companies access to coastal drilling areas and anwr as if that solves the problem nonpartisan oil experts have estimated that this drilling could take decades to make any impact on us domestic oil prices as i ve said the oil companies are structured in such a way as to sell their oil on the international market which is impacted by higher demand from other nations no longer can we isolate the price of oil to our demand for it nor can we isolate the prices we pay with our domestic supply as it makes up only a tiny proportion of the total peak oil has arrived now the term itself is somewhat deceptive as we ve come nowhere near to depleting half the world s oil we have however come to the point where oil production is declining because easily extracted oil is running out we ve explored from the mountains to the sea and found virtually all the supplies that we can find yes oil is down there but no it won t come up without huge investments investments which at this point are born by private sector speculators and oil companies as profit based industries accountable to their shareholders oil companie...