What on God's Green Earth?
I just sent Mitsi a DVD of Aaron’s 2007 graduation from Grand Lake High School. I had told her that I would be able to do this ages ago. Who knows why it took me so long? I’m hoping it arrived at a time when she needed something upbeat, something that spoke to her sense of optimism. In May 2007, Aaron was class valedictorian, and he was heading off to college with a fabulous scholarship and high hopes.
Cut to the present:
Will the shrimp beds that Mitsi’s husband Doyle and their son Johnny fish be spared?
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According to reports no oil has been spotted in the area yet. I’m sure they’re praying. Aren’t we all? Praying, wishing, watching with our hearts, hoping with a ferocity that is beyond words. Is it in our power to do something? Maybe that’s where our different points of view turn to conflict. I am in the camp that believes we have to take action. It is our moral responsibility as citizens of this country, as citizens of this earth. Will we? What about our leaders -- our elected officials? I am so disgusted with my own Senator, newbie Scott Brown, for voting today in favor of the Murkowski resolution and against the planet. What was his excuse? It might hurt the economy, he said in an op-ed piece in the Cape Cod Times, in which he also had the gall to pay lip-service to a green economy. And what about the planet, Sen. Brown? And, surprise, surprise, Mary Landrieu, Louisiana’s oil-cozy Democrat, crossed party lines to vote for the resolution. Thank heavens, brighter, more forward-looking minds prevailed and the resolution failed. But it was too few: 47 to 53. It’s not a very promising harbinger of what’s to come for clean air, land and water from our duly-elected officials.
And what is really happening to the shellfish beds along the eastern Gulf Coast? With all the oil-soaked seabirds birds washing ashore and with BP’s oil creeping into the fragile coastal grasslands and vegetation, how is it possible for the delicate shrimp, oyster and crawfish breeding grounds to survive?
The horror of BP greed / Mineral Management incompetence / American-overuse-of-fossil-fuel has not made its way westward to Cameron yet. The tides and the winds have been in their favor. For once.
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