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I don't know about other's living arrangements, but I'm one liberal who lives out in the country. Therefore, your broadbush BS doesn't apply..
It's not just "urban liberals", it's urban dwellers as a whole...many of them have never lived anywhere else and just don't understand the rural lifestyle..regardless of their political affiliation.
True, but most, if not all, loud mouth liberal-enviro wackos are from the cities. Go figure....
I grew up as a rural conservative. Living in a big city cured me of the rural. Serving in Vietnam cured me of the conservative. I am currently a suburban Liberal. I have always been a populist and progressive.
Now for the OP. I do not think this oil spill, even if there is a huge release of methane, will ever be an Extinction Level Event. This is many orders of magnitude smaller in scope or emissions than something like the Chixilube (sp?) Meteor Impact or the Deccan Traps lava flows.
I've been reading more and more stuff like this. Sure, there's always going to be those who think the end of the world is just around the corner, but what's worrisome is much of this is now coming from scientists and oil industry experts..
Personally I'm not saying or believing this is going to happen, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility. And one has to wonder why the government has been so stringent in keeping the media and the public in the dark about this disaster..
This world is going to keep spinning, with us on it for as long as God wants it to. Maybe Christ is going to come back in 6 months....maybe it'll be another 2000 years. I don't know.
The public did not pay much attention to oil spills until in 1967, when one supertanker, TORREY CANYON, ran aground on Pollard Rock off the coast of England.
One of the two largest oil spills in history occurred in 1979 which did not involved an oil tanker. The IXTOC 1 oil well, located in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico accidentally sank its drill into an underwater oil reservoir. 140 million gallons of oil came bursting into the gulf.
BP needs to be nationalized, hands down, it would send a message that the people DO care about their enviorement.... Sad thing is.....the people will always wake up after its too late....history has proven this time and time again....its just the way it turns...for now anyway.
As it says "The sad part about all this is that news organizations and blogs took the story seriously."
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