by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
June 8, 2010
(to the tune of Tom Paxton’s haunting “Whose Garden Was This?”)
Whose ocean was this?
It must have been lovely.
Blue was its color?
I’ve heard of blue water,
And I’d love to have seen it.
I’m told there was seafood,
Crabs and fishes,
And shrimp by the boatload.
They say it was tasty,
And I’d love to have tried it.
[Chorus:]
Ah tell me again I need to know:
The beaches were full, the fishing fleets thrived,
The shrimpers did, too, on seas that were blue.
Can you swear that was true?
You say there were beaches
As white as a snowfall,
With sand light as powder,
Yet firm under footsteps?
And I’d love to have felt it.
And surf filled with children,
Laughing and splashing,
Or building sand castles?
I’ve heard of sand castles,
And I’d love to have built one.
[Chorus:]
Ah tell me again I need to know:
The beaches were full, the fishing fleets thrived,
The shrimpers did, too, on seas that were blue.
Can you swear that was true?
Whose ocean was this?
It must have been lovely.
Blue was its color?
I’ve heard of blue water,
And I’d love to have seen it.
***
[DS added the video]
Tom Paxton: Whose Garden Was This (1971)
Boot Leg on Apr 21, 2014
Tom Paxton wrote this song for the first Earth Day in 1970. It was originally recorded on the album “6”, and was later covered by John Denver and Vera Lynn.
Earth Day is on 22nd April every year. Tomorrow will be the 45th Earth Day.
see
Committing “Ecocide:” Tipping Point Between Evolution or Extinction? by Robert S. Becker
BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day, scientist says
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As the oil spill in the Gulf grows larger and more deadly, decimating all that it touches, BP continues to turn down assistance from Americans who just want to help clean up the mess. (…I hear they even turned down Director James Cameron and actor Kevin Costner…)
First let’s get one thing perfectly straight: If you want to go and help clean up the oil spill, don’t let some corporate Big-Whigs “handle” you into believing that you’d be more of a liability, than an asset. I applaud you for recognizing that we all depend on our oceans for our very survival. It is this water that sustains every living thing on our planet, and it is also this water that we must protect in order to save ourselves from extinction.
BP has downplayed the problem in the Gulf from the beginning as a means of corporate damage control. I don’t think they’ve yet recognized the severity of the problem. As I’ve written in past blog posts; the pipe needs to be capped and the relief well needs to be drilled. It’s not an exact science by any means, and if BP doesn’t get it right the first time, they’ll have to do it over, and over, and over again, until they do. How many months (or years) will that take? How much damage will have been done to our environment by then? We’ve already seen what 51 days of oil can do to the Gulf of Mexico… What would happen if the oil was left, unabated, for several months, or years? It’s a frightening example of corporate greed gone awry and it’s criminal, pure and simple.
Corporations should never be allowed the opportunity to risk the lives of everyone on the planet just to make a profit for a few shareholders. (What good is money, after all, if you don’t have air to breathe, water to drink, or food to eat without fear of contamination?)
BREAKING NEWS: I’ve just heard that those enormous plumes floating just under the surface of the water have been certified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.) as crude oil.
(Are we just casual witnesses to our own demise? I wonder…)