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Before it’s all said and done, the entire human race may just earn itself a Darwin Award. The Darwin Award is a fictional award given to people for "the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves from it in really stupid ways."
Developers and corporations are actually celebrating the shrinking of the polar ice caps. Hey, it’s more places to drill for oil baby!
With major companies and nations large and small adopting similar
logic, the Arctic is undergoing nothing less than a great rush for
virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of
dollars. Even before the polar ice began shrinking more each summer,
countries were pushing into the frigid Barents Sea, lured by undersea
oil and gas fields and emboldened by advances in technology. But now,
as thinning ice stands to simplify construction of drilling rigs,
exploration is likely to move even farther north.Last year, scientists found tantalizing hints of oil in seabed samples
just 200 miles from the North Pole. All told, one quarter of the
world’s undiscovered oil and gas resources lies in the Arctic,
according to the United States Geological Survey.…"It’s the positive side of global warming, if there is a positive
side," said Ron Lemieux, the transportation minister of Manitoba, whose
provincial government is investing millions in Churchill.
Yes, there you have it. It’s the positive side of global warming. Making a profit. While our planet begins its slide into an irreversible climate shift that could have cataclysmic results, corporations are practically pissing themselves to grab up all that new land to drill for more of the stuff that is causing the fucking problem in the first place. Now that’s logic. That’s like having somebody shoot at you, and you come up with the bright idea to start shooting yourself first, so their bullets can bounce off the ones you already put in there.
How are we supposed to rationalize such stupidity? If you went to your doctor and told him you’d been having headaches, and he told you his treatment was going to be to start hitting you in the head with a hammer until they went away, would your reaction be, "sounds great to me doc, get to whackin"?
Does anyone get it? Am I the crazy one? It’s going to be hard to explain to little Billy in 50 years why the fuck everyone is living in Kansas and why there’s so much beach front property there.
—admin
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