Comments for Riki Ott http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott Just another The Chelsea Green Weblogs weblog Sat, 25 May 2013 04:28:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence by marybeth zirkle http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/2010/06/11/from-the-ground-bp-censoring-media-destroying-evidence/#comment-98 marybeth zirkle Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:48:30 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/?p=11#comment-98 I'm in port angeles washington and was born & raised on martha's vinyard in massachusetts. I'm 48, and although my physical location is far removed from the death of the gulf ocean, marine life, and habitat, I am nearly incapable of performing everyday chores and obligations, having found myself stunned, sickened, and infinitely saddened at this corporate obscenity and what it forces us to understand about the government once and for all. For Americans to be unable to witness the extent of death in and near the gulf and to find their intelligence insulted by Obama and BP who claim the gulf can be 'restored' to 'better than before' is to understand the extent of media coverup, and this suspicion is completely valid: The Protecting Cyberspace Act (bill) was introduced by Obama a week ago and is moving through congress faster than a speeding bullet. Of course it's gotten no media attention. I believe any 'freedom of speech' argument is moot because the administration is on the verge of assuming this regulatory power on 'national security' grounds. It makes no financial sense to protect citizenry or launch extensive, costly forces 'just to clean up' creatures and habitat that generate publicity problems and the need for extensive media-promotion of 'damage-control' but little in the way of profit. I have lost my peace of mind. I have been told 'don't think about it', 'nothing you can do', while I know in my soul this is going to create dead zones, extinction, poverty, and effect all of us in ways thus far not made public by uncompensated scientists. What happens when oil contained within the earth's core is drained? Is this 'fossil-fuel' performing some vital function involving gravitational pull or some type of 'cushioning' between what lies beneath it towards earth's core and stratum above it? I completely understand now that US citizens have no representative party, a form of 'Enviro-Political' government that does not view absolutely everything through the ruthless lense of financial gain. I really have to find a way to soothe my mind and get my cats fresh water, clean my home, and venture forth for a few groceries. I've written to anyone and everyone I can get through to. I asked Woods Hole Institute if they'd release their scientific findings thus far but I am probably considered yet another nut-job with nothing better to do than sit at my computer sending emails. I called BP's comment line and the young lady who supposedly took my comment could not repeat it back to me. Of course that leads me to believe it's another mirage courtesy of BP. Can you tell me what I could do that might be effective, where I could direct my communications that I might have them considered and (gasp!) maybe even briefly responded to? I don't rant, blame, swear or spend too much time on what, for me, is the very worst and most shameful result: whales (cetaceans of all kinds), seabirds, manatees, sharks, micro-organisms and all the other innocent wonders whose patterns of feeding, migration and breeding that make their eventual deaths inevitable. I don't feel I'm being 'alarmist' at all. What little I have taught myself about marine life leaves me no room for even the slightest hope of seeing the gulf become a completely healthy and inhabitable environment during my lifetime and even beyond. I haven't grieved like this since losing my Dad 8 years ago this month. If you find the time to read this I would be honored. I'm now going to go purchase your book, and then I'm going to have to force myself to do all the things I used to do as I thought gratefully of the whales in the sea and the beauty and health of the ocean. Surely the sickened and all-consuming pain of our fellow Americans in the gulf coast warrants at least as much coverage as the car accident that tragically killed a british princess. Mary Beth Zirkle 360-457-8385 I'm in port angeles washington and was born & raised on martha's vinyard in massachusetts. I'm 48, and although my physical location is far removed from the death
of the gulf ocean, marine life, and habitat, I am nearly incapable of performing everyday
chores and obligations, having found myself stunned, sickened, and infinitely saddened
at this corporate obscenity and what it forces us to understand about the government
once and for all.
For Americans to be unable to witness the extent of death in and near the gulf and
to find their intelligence insulted by Obama and BP who claim the gulf can be 'restored' to 'better than before' is to understand the extent of media coverup, and this suspicion
is completely valid: The Protecting Cyberspace Act (bill) was introduced by Obama a week ago and is moving through congress faster than a speeding bullet.
Of course it's gotten no media attention.
I believe any 'freedom of speech' argument is moot because the administration is
on the verge of assuming this regulatory power on 'national security' grounds.

It makes no financial sense to protect citizenry or launch extensive, costly forces
'just to clean up' creatures and habitat that generate publicity problems and
the need for extensive media-promotion of 'damage-control' but little in the
way of profit.

I have lost my peace of mind. I have been told 'don't think about it', 'nothing you
can do', while I know in my soul this is going to create dead zones, extinction,
poverty, and effect all of us in ways thus far not made public by uncompensated
scientists.
What happens when oil contained within the earth's core is drained?
Is this 'fossil-fuel' performing some vital function involving gravitational pull
or some type of 'cushioning' between what lies beneath it towards earth's core
and stratum above it?

I completely understand now that US citizens have no representative party, a
form of 'Enviro-Political' government that does not view absolutely everything through
the ruthless lense of financial gain.

I really have to find a way to soothe my mind and get my cats fresh water, clean my home,
and venture forth for a few groceries.
I've written to anyone and everyone I can get through to.
I asked Woods Hole Institute if they'd release their scientific findings thus far but
I am probably considered yet another nut-job with nothing better to do than sit at
my computer sending emails.

I called BP's comment line and the young lady who supposedly took my comment
could not repeat it back to me. Of course that leads me to believe it's another
mirage courtesy of BP.

Can you tell me what I could do that might be effective, where I could direct my
communications that I might have them considered and (gasp!) maybe even
briefly responded to?

I don't rant, blame, swear or spend too much time on what, for me, is the very
worst and most shameful result: whales (cetaceans of all kinds), seabirds,
manatees, sharks, micro-organisms and all the other innocent wonders
whose patterns of feeding, migration and breeding that make their eventual
deaths inevitable.

I don't feel I'm being 'alarmist' at all. What little I have taught myself about
marine life leaves me no room for even the slightest hope of seeing the gulf
become a completely healthy and inhabitable environment during my lifetime
and even beyond.

I haven't grieved like this since losing my Dad 8 years ago this month.

If you find the time to read this I would be honored.
I'm now going to go purchase your book, and then I'm going to have to force
myself to do all the things I used to do as I thought gratefully of the whales in the sea
and the beauty and health of the ocean.
Surely the sickened and all-consuming pain of our fellow Americans in the gulf coast
warrants at least as much coverage as the car accident that tragically killed a british
princess.

Mary Beth Zirkle
360-457-8385

]]> Comment on Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect People by Huey Hessling http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/2010/05/20/human-health-tragedy-in-the-making-gulf-response-failing-to-protect-people/#comment-75 Huey Hessling Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:07:33 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/?p=10#comment-75 Well explained. Keep it coming. Well explained. Keep it coming.

]]> Comment on Up Huffington's Ante: Pledge to be Unreasonable by Stefan Doering http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/2009/01/13/up-the-ante-pledge-to-be-unreasonable/#comment-2 Stefan Doering Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:16:03 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/rikiott/?p=3#comment-2 Very nicely written. Please know with: • 50% of the world’s wetlands having been lost in the last 100 years, • 50% of the world’s forests having been chopped down, • 70% of the world’s major marine fisheries having been depleted • 100% of the world’s coral reefs at risk, and • 6.3 billion people on the planet, adding another 3 billion in the next 40 years... we don't have a choice but to be unreasonable in how we think "be" and "do". We need more powerful people in key places in government to help businesses understand the core issues of true "sustainability" as one of our first orders of business in our new administration. Because if we wait for government to really change the way we need them to, we might have missed the boat. What I believe, and teach my students and clients, is the fastest way we will stop destroying the planet and actually rebuild it is by showing people how to make money doing this. Correctly! Thanks for your very well-written and thought out article. UnReasoanbly yours, Stefan Doering www.beunreasonable.com Very nicely written. Please know with:

• 50% of the world’s wetlands having been lost in the last 100 years,
• 50% of the world’s forests having been chopped down,
• 70% of the world’s major marine fisheries having been depleted
• 100% of the world’s coral reefs at risk, and
• 6.3 billion people on the planet, adding another 3 billion in the next 40 years…

we don't have a choice but to be unreasonable in how we think "be" and "do".

We need more powerful people in key places in government to help businesses understand the core issues of true "sustainability" as one of our first orders of business in our new administration.

Because if we wait for government to really change the way we need them to, we might have missed the boat.

What I believe, and teach my students and clients, is the fastest way we will stop destroying the planet and actually rebuild it is by showing people how to make money doing this.

Correctly!

Thanks for your very well-written and thought out article.

UnReasoanbly yours,
Stefan Doering
http://www.beunreasonable.com

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