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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>a twisted consequence of oil spills I had never
thought of. Lori S.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 13, 2014 7:11 AM</DIV>
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<P>Energy giant Kinder Morgan was recently called
insensitive <A style="COLOR: #26797f"
href="http://go.davidsuzuki.org/wD0U0dNV40000f1B00M0z0u">for
pointing out that</A> "Pipeline spills can have both
positive and negative effects on local and regional
economies, both in the short- and long-term." The
company wants to triple its shipping capacity from the
Alberta tar sands to Burnaby, in part by twinning its
current pipeline. Its National Energy Board submission
states, "Spill response and cleanup creates business and
employment opportunities for affected communities,
regions, and cleanup service providers."</P>
<P>It may seem insensitive, but it's true. And that's
the problem. Destroying the environment is bad for the
planet and all the life it supports, including us. But
it's often good for business. The 2010 BP oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico added billions to the U.S. gross
domestic product! Even if a spill never occurred (a big
"if", considering <A style="COLOR: #26797f"
href="http://go.davidsuzuki.org/TC0Vu0f010000DA004dMNU0">the
records of Kinder Morgan</A> and other pipeline
companies), increasing capacity from 300,000 to 890,000
barrels a day would go hand-in-hand with rapid tar sands
expansion and more wasteful, destructive burning of
fossil fuels -- as would approval of Enbridge Northern
Gateway and other pipeline projects, as well as
increased oil shipments by rail.</P>
<P>The company will make money, the government will reap
some tax and royalty benefits and a relatively small
number of jobs will be created. But the massive costs of
dealing with a pipeline or tanker spill and the
resulting climate change consequences will far outweigh
the benefits. Of course, under <A style="COLOR: #26797f"
href="http://go.davidsuzuki.org/o00B000Du001fV0d0UDNM40">our
current economic paradigm</A>, even the costs of
responding to global warming impacts show as positive
growth in the GDP -- the tool we use to measure what
passes for progress in this strange worldview.</P>
<P>And so it's full speed ahead and damn the
consequences. Everything is measured in money. B.C.'s
economy seems sluggish? Well, obviously, the solution is
to get fracking and sell the gas to Asian markets. Never
mind that <A style="COLOR: #26797f"
href="http://go.davidsuzuki.org/y1uV0Mf00N04UDC0dE00000">a
recent study</A>, commissioned by the Canadian
government, concludes we don't know enough about the
practice to say it's safe, the federal government has
virtually no regulations surrounding it and provincial
rules "are not based on strong science and remain
untested." Never mind that the more infrastructure we
build for polluting, climate-disrupting fossil fuels,
the longer it will take us to move away from them.
There's easy money to be had -- for someone.</P>
<P>We need to do more than just get off fossil fuels,
although that's a priority. We need to conserve, cut
back and switch to cleaner energy sources. In Canada, we
need a national energy strategy. And guess what? That
will create lasting jobs! But we must also find better
ways to run our societies than relying on rampant
consumption, planned obsolescence, excessive and
often-pointless work and an economic system that depends
on damaging ways and an absurd measurement to convince
us it somehow all amounts to progress.</P>
<P>It's not about going back to the Dark Ages. It's
about realizing that a good life doesn't depend on
owning more stuff, scoring the latest gadgets or driving
bigger, faster cars. Our connections with family,
friends, community and nature are vastly more
important.</P>
<P>Yes, we need oil and gas, and will for some time.
Having built our cities and infrastructure to
accommodate cars rather than people, we can't turn
around overnight. But we can stop wasting our precious
resources. By conserving and switching to cleaner
energy, we can ensure we still have oil and gas long
into the future, perhaps long enough to learn to
appreciate the potential of what's essentially energy
from the sun, stored and compressed over millions of
years. If we dig it up and sell it so it can be burned
around the world, we consign ourselves to a polluted
planet ravaged by global warming, with nothing to fall
back on when fossil fuels are gone.</P>
<P>Scientists around the world have been warning us for
decades about the consequences of our wasteful
lifestyles, and evidence for the ever-increasing damage
caused by pollution and climate change continues to
grow. But we have to do more than just wean ourselves
off fossil fuels. We must also look to economic systems,
progress measurements and ways of living that don't
depend on destroying everything the planet provides to
keep us healthy and alive.</P>
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