Comments on: Deep Waters: an invitation

By: Deep Waters | The Undone « The Dark Mountain Project

Deep Waters | The Undone « The Dark Mountain Project — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:57:51 +0000

[...] the latest of our Deep Waters series, “Blue Chris” wonders whether it is possible for a species to exercise [...]

By: Lines of Defence (II): The Invisible Enemy « The Dark Mountain Project

Lines of Defence (II): The Invisible Enemy « The Dark Mountain Project — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:36:58 +0000

[...] the past eight weeks, this blog has been given over to writing received in response to Deep Waters: our invitation for reflections on the Macondo blowout and the sea-floor gusher which has [...]

By: Deep Waters | ‘A Black Rain Rises’ « The Dark Mountain Project

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:33:08 +0000

[...] into Deep Waters, as we approach the end of our series of posts in which writers respond to this summer’s [...]

By: freewillie

freewillie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:03:51 +0000

I never thought the day would come when I would empathise with the plight of a big oil company. But it did with the deepwater event when I heard all the wailing & gnashing from people driving 4×4s & lambasting BP. I’ve been outraging people by saying “we’re all to blame”. “We” being anyone that consumes quantities of the stuff BP sell which is most people in the west. You can’t divorce yourself from the responsibility of buying the stuff. If you demand cheap oil that sets up a chain reaction. Your demand is registered within this wonderful consumer society. The supplier (BP in this case) sees your demand & sets about fulfilling your order. Thats market forces in the capitalist civilisation. So this demand ends up with BP drilling in unsafe locations desperate to get you that cheap oil you have demanded.
They’re just victims of your demand.
Our modern society is full of this kind of disconnection where people refuse to accept that they have any responsibility. Its always the “government”, the banks or some conglomerate. Never us. we are conditioned never to look beyond the symptoms. That way no awkward questions get asked like “WHY?”

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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:15:30 +0000

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By: best man

best man — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:03:23 +0000

And the fishing is so brutal – the nets catch turtles even, and everything else in the water. These fishing vessels need to be stopped – just cannot go on. Its more than awful.

re poetry and blog entries – am getting stuff prepared.