The Gulf Oil Spill shows...

the business and greed  of people, the footprint of mankind on the environment, has the power to poison our world.  The Gulf Spill needs no exaggeration, no melt through to China story, no horror story about bumps in the night; this is the disaster that men could cause, unfolded before our disbelieveing eyes, it is already worse than we could imagine.
A school child, on the day after the explosion, said to me: " My teacher said there is an oil well in the ocean pouring oil into the sea and it could poison the whole Gulf of Mexico."  I smiled and had not even connected the explosion to the open well gushing oil. Then I thought-- the oil will stop, or the company will plug the well.  I thought about the first Gulf War when the oil wells were set on fire, how they never went out until we capped them.
Now, we are mute witnesses, because the company has so much money it does not need to listen to us.  It had no reliable plan for this event, and this event was not unlikely.  It was likely and still is.  The Bush years still haunt us, when government was like a rich man's toy.  Our chickens became diseased, and we still ate them, our government became the ministry of fear and alarm, we watched the colors of the alerts and felt afraid; New Orleans sank while the White House plotted against Democrats, we winced at the sight of destruction--although it affected me deeply, I wonder how many still feel anything.  Now the Bush policies that allow a corporation to ignore risks to the world for its profits; a Supreme Court that gives BP - a foreign corporation- the Constitutional Right to spend its billions to influence our elections, and who could blame them, if the Bush people allowed this disaster to take shape--they are worth every penny BP will will spend to get rid of Obama.