What do large power and money hungry international commercial corporations have in common with dinosaurs?
They are both predators focussed on devouring anything in sight with no thought to the future and both have at some stage ruled the world!
When you think about it they also have other similarities:
- large in physical size but small in brain
- no sense of humanity or compassion
- no conscience
- have voracious appetites
- are intensely competitive
- leave a large “footprint”
- destroy precious non-renewable resources
- are self-perpetuating
British Petroleum (“BP”) is a good example of a large international petroluem player that currently is showing all the attributes of a prehistoric dinosaur.
There’s an old saying that says “if you play with fire be prepared to be burned”. If “BP” was prepared to participate in deep sea oil drilling then it should have ensured that it had the means available to deal with any potential risk that it may experience as a consequence of a rig “blow out”.
Recent events bear testament to the fact that “BP” either took a calculated risk that such an event would not occur or worse still it simply didn’t give a damn! Either way it clearly does not have the expertese required to deal with this disaster.
That corporation’s pathetic attempts to stem the flow of oil and to prevent what is fast becoming an unprecedented global ecological disaster have been staggering.
This is not a situation where one corporation should be dictating how best the deal with the problem. This is an international problem which requires the participation of the global community to develop the response required to avert this catastrophe from escalating.
The weakness that large corporations like “BP” have in common with dinosaurs is that neither copes well with environmental change. We all know what happened to the dinosaurs which failed to adapt to a changing environment – GONE!
The “pillage and burn” mentality of large corporations wil continue if unchecked until there is nothing left. At that point everyone LOOSES!
It’s well passed the time when we can continue to sit back and watch with unreactive horror to the destruction of our beautiful fragile planet EARTH. Just because our immediate lives appear unaffected by ecological disasters should not mean we bury our heads in the sands of compacency.
The simple act of not spending your money on “BP” products and instead giving it to more environmentally conscious organisations is a good place to start. Thats what I am doing!