Almost three months now, with damage predicted for at least three decades, BP's war on all life is now a rounding success...

So it turns out with the placement of a better cap, that BP CAN stop the leak. Makes one wonder what motivated them to do so? Could it be the Coast Guard's insistence that "enough is enough", a magic command being all it took to do the job right?

I suspect something more sinister. Something lawyerly.

I mean, it makes sense that since it had already cost BP $700 million to drill to the point of the explosion, that they'd want to recover that investment by aiming to recover the well as opposed to plugging it. (And to just think, a $500k acoustic blowout preventer would have saved them tens of billions in clean up costs, makes me think of that ol' British saying; Pennywise and Pound Foolish).

Out at sea, there's the Corexit, a poisonous toxin (four times more toxic than crude oil and another product of the petroleum industry). Pumped into the oceans by the hundreds of millions of gallons to hide the death and destruction from the cameras in the sky... they would rather hide it than correct it... But why would they do this? Well ladies and gentlemen... cover up, yes, there has been a cover up, and if you have any doubt, just check out "What BP Hid: Our Gulf In Peril" by PuppetGov.com:

After watching such scenes, its understandable you might want to "tune it out" as I imagine the citizens of Hiroshima might have wanted to "tune out" their burning eyeballs and slouching off skin. But you MUSN'T. This is our fate, the fate of our planet. This effects ALL OF US. The oceans are our lungs, and they've just had billion of gallons of poison geysered down their esophagus. No, it is time to begin THINKING, and thinking begins with awareness.

First step; Get off oil. Sell the car. Live in an neighborhood near your work, cycle, shop, support your local businesses. The less oil in transport, the less extraction needed for manufacture, which itself can evolve to more sustainable ingredients. Don't give me that "how do you think they made that computer you're writing on?" bullcrap, two-thirds of oil goes to transport.

Second step; Demand political accountability. As big a joke as democracy has become, it is still marginally functional, and high time to re-imprint what it really means, so vote in leaders who will do right by the Earth and not just corporate interests. The West needs to vote in leaders who will immediately end our "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan. These so-called "wars" are nothing more than ways for corporate defense contractors to reap billions from war profiteering at our expense.

The "war" in Afghanistan is not winnable. You are dealing with proudly backwards Muslim illiterates. If we really want to get rid of Al Queda and the Taliban hiding in the mountains then just cluster bomb up and down the border with Pakistan and then do it over and over again until there is nowhere left to hide.

Better yet, because of all the new minerals that have been discovered there, let China have all the rights to these and they will surely take care of the Muslims in rapid order, and it would be far better to have the Muslims angrier at China than the West. China does not have the same "moral" constraints that we soft Westerners have, they will do what is necessary when it comes to the evil sect of Radical Islam and its suicidal followers.

Sounds cynical, I know, and I point it out as only the unavoidable end progression of the current path. So why not something better, something less cynical?

Take those war budgets and put at least $500 billion a year (at least) into solar, wind and other clean electric technologies, then strip the oil industry of every last damn subsidy they undeservedly suck up and we'll feel the real cost of that oil addiction. Let Europe and America subsidize instead the manufacture of cheap electric, hydrogen, and air compression types of cars that already have been invented, which everyone can afford, and eliminate our need for oil and the huge deficits that oil wars cost. If we are going to go in debt I would rather it be done for sustainable renewable non-polluting energy than giving it to gamblers/bankers and their Wall Street bookies.

We should also do more solar and wind on the community level. A town of roughly 10,000 can get by on a solar array of about five acres. At the very least, outfit all homes with solar so that they draw from this and supply excess to the grid. Also if we do power generation on the Distributed Generation approach, it would be far less costly versus the big solar plants. Most cities, excepting maybe the largest like Los Angeles, New York, London, etc., have approximately 5 to 10 acres of usable land per 10,000 population to build on the community level, and then add on by outfitting home roofs and we will be set.

We need to start thinking about the future and getting big oil out of our pockets. This will also get rid of our "need" to be involved with the Medieval East, funding these Islamic regimes with our money for their oil so they can continue their goal of building a Global Challiphiate, which is really their end goal, at least according to their book and actions.

Let us end war by ending our need for oil, and end oil, by ending our need for war. The two go hand in hand...

Costa Rica aims to be first carbon neutral nation

The Costa Rican government is developing plans to begin offsetting all of the country's carbon dioxide emissions and become carbon neutral by 2030, according to Reuters.

The news service La Nación reported that Environment and Energy Minister Roberto Dobles plans for Costa Rica to reach its goal using budgeting, laws, and incentives, including measures to promote biofuels, hybrid vehicles, and clean energy. Additionally, a "CNeutral" label will be used to certify that tourism and certain industrial practices mitigate or offset their carbon dioxide emissions.

Tourists and businesses may also be charged a voluntary "tax" to offset carbon emissions, with one tonne of carbon emissions priced at US$10, according to La Nación. The money will be used to fund conservation, reforestation and research in protected areas.

According to Reuters, Costa Rica has already implemented a programme of distributing the proceeds from a gasoline tax to landowners that grow trees to capture carbon. "The fact that Costa Rica has applied payments on a national scale is what's innovative," Reuters quoted Esteban Brenes of the WWF as saying.

News reports say that the country is planning to create a carbon certificate market that would boost carbon capture in the nation's forests, and maintain the forests' scenic beauty.

Delegates at a recent United Nations meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, noted that they were watching Costa Rica's initiative and hope to replicate it in other regions.

Costa Rica is already a leader in green issues. It generates 78 percent of its energy with hydroelectric power and another 18 percent by wind or geothermal power. In 2003, the average Costa Rican generated 1.5 tonnes of carbon, compared to nearly ten tonnes by the average Norwegian. Norway has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2050, Reuters says.

THINK about the fact that every day you breathe air that has been proven toxic in the laboratory; shortening life-span, retarding growth, stunting your development. Challenge yourself to make a difference. Think globally. Act locally. But act now.