The sea turns black

So the sea is turning black after all.  Just as a Hopi prophecy is said to have foretold.  I confess I didn’t have the wisdom to understand how it might come to pass.  But in hindsight, it seems we should have been able to guess.

The oil industry has been a curse since the days when they strong-armed congress into alcohol prohibition.  That act was designed to prevent the emerging fuel market for internal combustion engines from standardizing on alcohol rather than oil.  As soon as the automotive industry was hooked on oil, prohibition was repealed.

Since then we have colonized and enslaved millions of people to safeguard big oil’s profits.  So many wars have been fought in its name.  We have no hope of ever counting the dead that were sacrificed in its wake.  Even now it continues in Iraq, and perhaps in Iran someday soon.

As we witness the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, maybe FINALLY Americans will understand the idiocy of allowing big oil to ruin the planet in their zeal for ever-larger profits at the the people and the planet’s expense.

I hope so.  It is tragic it would require so much devastation to wake Americans up.  But is is better late than never.