Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Peter Presland]

Fun game everybody! Guess what Gulf of Mexico animals these used to be! Yay! Games!!!

Photos are attached. Don't cheat now.

Personally, I find these and the masses of other image and footage of the devastation in the GOM difficult to look at and the vast scale of the whole thing just depresses the hell out of me - and I'm in the UK!. So how must those living in the GOM coast lands be feeling right now?

There are those in the 'alternative news/blogsphere who poo-poo 'peak oil' theory as another establishment scam. However, the plain fact is that, unless 'Abiotic' oil is a reality - and it seems to me that the evidence for that is scant indeed - then oil is a finite resource. Apart from Iraq, Iran and the Caspian Basin, we have already pretty well used up the easy to get-at stuff; which of course explains much about the West's military subjugation of those benighted regions. Which in turn means that, in order to maintain global production at the levels necessary to maintain our non-negotiable life-styles (let alone for others to aspire to similar profligate levels) it has become absolutely necessary to go after the difficult to get-at stuff.

The implications of all this are crystal clear to me; but there remains near absolute denial that there is any such issue and that it will be back to business as usual just as soon as we can root out al Qaeda and get everyone borrowing and consuming again.

It is indeed a blind, stupid, crazy world we inhabit and I look to the future with considerable foreboding