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The cost of our Thneed
Author: Raine    Date: 06/26/2008 12:33:27

Mountain top removal in the Appalachias for coal, mining the Grand Canyon, and now drilling off our coastal waters for oil. This is what is either happening, or will happen all in the search for fuel sources.

What are we doing to this country? It is a beautiful country. Breathtaking. People come from all over the world to see our mountains and shorelines. They come to hike and to swim. They come to take in the majestic beauty of the United States. They come for the National parks, they come for the sand, They come for the snow. They come for the rivers, they come for the rolling hills. The high peaks, the canyon's.

I ask again - what are we doing? We are stripping and draining and drilling all in the name of needing *energy*. We are destroying her. We know of Global Warming, we know of the need for fossil fuels, we know the needs, but I ask, why? Why are we throwing away the precious beauty of this country all in the name of fuel? Is nothing sacred anymore? Is our need for fuel so great that we would sacrifice America by pillaging her beauty?

This is Kentucky, where once a mountain stood:
http://mountainroadshow.com/gallery/ky_mtr/028_tn.jpg


The is radioactive waste in a river:
http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/gwb/Pre%208-2004/images/airShot.jpg


And this is what can happen at an off shore oil rig:
http://www.wokingseacadets.org.uk/news-articles/oilRigs/ixtoc-2.jpg

The Lorax tried to warn us...
"I am the Lorax," he coughed and he whiffed.
He sneezed and he snuffled. He snarggled. He sniffed.
"Once-ler!" he cried with a cruffulous croak.
"Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke!
My poor Swomee-Swans... why, they can't sing a note!
No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1238/lorax0rj.jpg


We need to be good stewards of this earth. It is not ours to destroy - all in the name of a thneed...

:peace: and
Raine

 

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