I used to think Triumph's proposed slaughterhouse was the worst thing that could happen…this new disaster trumps all. ~

Well from Hell Destined to be Global Catastrophe

“Our fight against nature is one we have never won and this time it may be check-mate.

Few people in our modern world hunger for less. Instead go to war with nature and each other in our endless thirst for more. Perhaps in humankind’s arrogance, we have forgotten that all things in this world are borrowed.

Earthquakes and volcanos humble us only briefly. Hurricanes earn our respect until they pass. But the Macondo well field under the Gulf oil spill will be with us in one way or another – forever. This we cannot change.  The well from Hell is giving the world the ultimate lesson in humility.”

“The damage from this oil spill is epic and Americans know this. Americans have a disquieting sense than the situation is worse than they're being told, that it's worse than even BP and the politicians know. On some level, in some portion of our core awareness, Americans are starting to realize how much trouble we're really in,” CNN reports.

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The Well From Hell

The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum… shadow and flame.

— Saruman, The Lord of the Rings

There is something primordial about BP's quest for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It's an Icarus-like story of super-ambition; of reaching too far, delving too deep.

Some geologists say that BP's arrogance has set off a series of events that may be irreversible. There are some that think that BP has drilled into an deep-core oil volcano that cannot be stopped, regardless of the horizontal drills the company claims will stop the oil plume in August. 

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Molly Regan, activist extraordinaire, environmental facilitator, elected official,  is a member of Progressive Action for the Common Good in the Quad Cities.  Don't forget to CPR…Conserve/Participate/Recycle