Chevron Texaco and why we need green technology
Yesterday I met up with Nicola Peel. Nicola speaks all over the world about living a sustainable life, as well as advising businesses about ways to improve their green credentials.
Nicola told me about Chevron Texaco and the environmental disaster that is a result of them drilling for oil in Ecuador.
I couldn’t remember hearing about it before, so I promised to read her article about it. Which I did and which is here: http://www.eyesofgaia.com/pb/wp_07b2599b/wp_07b2599b.html
It paints a really grim picture of greed, carelessness and a complete disregard for the environmental impact the oil industry can (and still does) have.
Now, not being one to take anything on face value, a quick Google search turned up lots of information about the ongoing disaster and law suit. Here’s one such article I found on the subject.
http://chevrontoxico.com/about/rainforest-chernobyl/
It would be misleading to say that technology got us into this situation, because it is the actions of people that determine how we use technology. Now as well as questions about accountability, we need to ask, “How can technology get us out of this mess?”
http://www.eyesofgaia.com/pb/wp_07b2599b/wp_07b2599b.html
That’s the way they like to do business and a petroleum standard; no responsibility or liability for any of their actions, which is literally sickening.
It’s going to take time for green energy to be more cost effective than the norm. And, since they can get away with this kind of damage for now, they do it. However, when this planet is really dying, they will then switch over. Will it be too late? I’ll guarantee you the earth will eventually be fine. It’s because it’ll kick all the animals off it, especially the top of the food chain, us.
However grim this is, I have a little faith that eventually we’ll get the whole picture and get the right things done. It’s just taking way too long to get where we need to be.
Cherie Ambrose we need more commitment from national governments, incentives and the like, to get things moving more quickly. The transition to renewable energy is still way too slow.
Alan Stainer I agree! =) Have a happy Friday.
Cherie Ambrose it already is in parts of Europe, the only thing blocking a complete switch to green energy is the oil industry.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2016/05/portugal-100-percent-renewable-energy-wind-solar-hydroelectric/
erwin bolink lol! Don’t get me started about the oil industry ;-) I wish I was in Europe sometimes =)
yah and the CO2 I exhale is the problem…global warming may or may not be a natural event but destroying our world with toxic wastes is a concrete threat. it’s time to start holding the people running these corporations responsible from monsanto to exxon they are killing us and our children with their greed and lust for power. we put limitations on people religions and governments but these guys just do what ever they want then retire. our problem is the people depend on the government, the government depends on the corporations, the corporations depend on the bankers, and the bankers screw everyone. as i see it anyways
Robert Walden Some earthly humans forget we are also part of the natural world and our self awareness is also a responsibility to not destroy the planet in whatever technology and energy sources we find and develop as we evolve.
Cherie Ambrose And me the other way around lol, although we have some things better organized than the states.
erwin bolink =)
And on my face.:-)
In Capitalism, we privatize profit while shifting liability to the public sector. We are Capitalists in the US, it is what we do.
Greed should be a crime.
Daise Flowers punishable by death.
Chris Jordan
Unfortunately, most people are motivated and act in their economic self-interest as they perceive it in their daily lives. Fear and greed are the two strongest Human emotions, the degree determined by one’s mentality, scarcity or abundance. Most people are taught to live in scarcity by parents and society when it comes to people they don’t know and love.
Mac Baird Sounds like innate religious self-interest, which often reeks of fear and greed by adulthood, especially from the CEO desk.
Daise Flowers
Whether head of a family or head of a corporation, does one pay/spend more than necessary for goods and services? Does the worker seek the highest compensation for their labor or the least? Does the property owner lock his home and vehicle or not? Is the accumulation of wealth part of the definition of success for the business, or is it philanthropy? What is the purpose of investment, if not the desire for more of something in the future? Are laws, police, military necessary or a waste of money? Our answers to these and similar questions determines the degree to which we live in fear and greed.
Mac Baird Is there a limit to enough wealth and the fear of never having enough? Perhaps there should be, and a treatment to money hoarding. Historically, these gaps in income always eventually lead to revolution, (and those holding the wealth know it) yet greed situations always eventually return like an incurable human disease.
Daise Flowers
Historically, successful revolutions have occurred when “effective” unemployment reaches about 30%. Below that level, revolution is more personal or individual. For some people, there is no limit to the feeling of scarcity or not having enough wealth. At some point there is a transition from wealth to power as a goal. The transition between abundance and scarcity mentality usually requires a significant emotional event to overcome our programming. Generosity and devotion to the greater good is sourced in abundance mentality.
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