Oil Spills and Alien Abductions

Posted on | July 11, 2010 |

If I were a pelican, say, caught in the gulf oil spill, I’d probably go through a nightmare of poisons, and, if I’m lucky, be pulled out of the ocean by a volunteer, after a ghastly near death experience . I’d then be sprayed, cleaned, scrubbed, treated well, examined, tagged, turned upside down, contained, and finally — released in a different part of Florida.

And I bet I’d say, after all that, looking around a place I didn’t know filled with pelicans I’d never met, ‘I think I was just abducted by aliens’.

It all depends on how you see it.

The fact that we think we think we can ‘clean up’ after a disaster like this, and then have everything return to normal, if only we throw enough money at it - that’s one of the strangest mind-sets I’ve ever heard.

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