All the news coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is horrific. Now, in the past few days, I've been reading how various scientists are warning that we may have less than one hundred years before civilization collapses, before (perhaps) the extinction of humanity. If we let this happen, we don't deserve to call ourselves homo sapiens.
But worse than the news about the gulf, worse than the collapse of our oil-based economy, worse than Republican victories in the fall, Worse Than Anything, is our apparently innate desire to deny the evidence, blame others, and moan that nothing can be done.
Bullshit!
It may be that damage to our planet cannot be reversed. Scotty may be right when he cries, "Captain, I canna break the laws of physics!" But sometimes, all you need is a bigger hammer.
Sometimes, a lot of little hammers will do even better.
continued at Daily Kos....
