Hands across Amerika, what a wonderful, heart-warming concept. From
Santa Monica, California to the beaches of Alabama, Amerikans united in
an attempt to show their disappointment and anger at the British
Petroleum oil company (BP) as well as their love for the environment,
specifically the Gulf Coast.
It’s been over two months since BP caused the disastrous oil spill in
the Gulf Coast region of the United Snakes, and still the imperialists
and big capitalists are at a loss for how to stop one of the most
destructive environmental disasters in humyn history. Amerikans are mad!
One of the things Amerikans hate to see most is when the evils of
imperialism touch “their” shores. What a huge financial hit for all
those people living on and near the Gulf Coast, not to mention all that
poor defenseless marine life - how dare that BP come here and impose
their careless, maniacal ways on Amerikkka - have they no shame?
Amerikans didn’t want that oil anyway, right?
Actually, Amerikans do want BP drilling for oil. Being the parasites on
humynity and the globe that they are, they definitely wanted BP drilling
for oil in the Gulf Coast no matter what they say. They’re thirsty for
oil like ticks for blood. It’s partly why they installed the Shah of
Iran back in the day. It’s why they invaded Kuwait and attacked Iraq
during the Gulf War, which led to record-breaking marine oil spills at
that time polluting wetlands in Iraq (BP has far surpassed those records
now).(1) It’s why Amerika invaded Iraq a second time and hung Saddam.
And it’s partly why they now have their sights set on Iran for regime
change. So please, to all you oil thirsty piggish Amerikans, spare us
your sentiments. You wanted that oil just as much, if not more than your
big capitalists and energy corporations did.
It’s not as if BP is some foreign entity completely alien to Amerika
which somehow just muscled or manipulated the western hemisphere’s only
superpower and began drilling at will. You wanted that oil when you
decided to get rid of that tired old Chevy and upgrade to a decadently
sprawled out 2010 all terrain SUV. You wanted that oil when you decided
to keep your home at a comfy 73 degrees year round even though you live
in California. You want that oil every time you purchase all of the
other pointless, unnecessary crap that you don’t need which requires oil
for manufacturing, packaging, shipping, etc. And finally, you prove that
you want that oil every time one of your boys and girls comes back from
overseas in a body bag, or subject the Third World to your yoke of
oppression, death and destruction.
Everything’s fine and dandy when the oil spill happens somewhere else,
in some country you’re too lazy to even try to pronounce right.
Nigerians have been living among oil spills for over 50 years, amounting
to over 550 million gallons spilled, thanks to foreign oil companies
supplying Amerikans and other rich nations.(2) Fifty years, and still
nothing has been done about the destroyed ecosystems or humyn
livelihoods. And for those who are campaigning to end off shore oil
drilling in the United $tates without seriously restricting First World
consumption: that will only translate into more pollution and
destruction in Nigeria, the Sudan and all over the Middle East where
humyn lives and ecosystems are deemed less worthy by the chauvinists
screaming “not in my backyard!”
The oil spill wasn’t BP’s fault alone and it wasn’t Obama’s fault alone,
either. It’s capitalism stupid, and the sooner you begin to understand
that and start to do something to ensure that oil spills like in the
Gulf Coast don’t happen again, like say helping to bring imperialism
down, the better off we’ll all be.
This type of disaster would have had a very small to nil chance of
happening in the former Soviet Union (1917-1953) or the socialist
People’s Republic of China (1949-1976), because those communist
countries wouldn’t have had to do the extensive drilling that the First
World seems so caught up with. Why? It is exactly because the communist
countries implement something called “planned economics,” to meet humyn
needs. With today’s knowledge of capitalism’s effects on Earth’s
ecology, a socialist form of production would only approve the
production of necessary amounts of what’s needed for their people, such
as food, clothing, shelter, medical supplies and other necessities for
trade and sale. These planned economies would be updated quarterly,
yearly or as needed. But today, Amerikans demand more and they want it
cheap. And the imperialists must produce more than is needed in order to
continue to profit.
In a Maoist economic system, since production is for need and not
profit, safety suddenly becomes “affordable.” Under capitalism, cutting
corners increases profits, while threatening humyn lives. While many
Amerikans are legitimately angry, they feel helpless to do anything. The
BP officials seem untouchable, yet in a Maoist planned socialist
economy, those in charge of potentially life-threatening operations are
held to the greatest accountability, including the death penalty. While
BP officials are millionaires, communist officials in socialist China
made much less than intellectuals, while bearing much more
responsibility. Allowing the few to profit off of the destruction of the
planet that all life depends on will be the most lasting legacy of
capitalism that future generations will scratch their heads at.
We can expect many more environmental disasters to hit Amerika (as
they’ve already been hitting the Third World for decades) in the years
to come as the imperialists get more desperate to exploit the earth for
its material resources and leave all qualms aside when it comes to
tapping more and more into the U.$. minerals and fossil fuel reserves.
The insatiable appetites of consumption of the First World must be
stopped in order to maintain a planet worth building socialism on.
Notes:
(1)Threats
to the environment posed by war in Iraq. Science in Africa, March
2003.
(2)Jon
Gambrell. Gulf spill a familiar story in oil-soaked Nigeria. Associated
Press, July 5, 2010.
