What greater greed ?
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Dear editor, The article on the oil spill by Michael Schreiber in May's issue was very good. I would like to add a few points of interest. Each year, there are thousands of oil spills worldwide. The idea of oil companies drilling off Alaska's northern coast is a gamble not worth taking. This area is not only ecologically sensitive, but has some of the roughest seas on the planet.
After we drill-things get even worse. When corporations refine oil, they create tremendous amounts of toxic waste. Most toxic waste cannot be safely disposed of, so it is dumped in some of the poorest communities around the world.
Once oil is produced and then consumed, we create air pollution. Along with burning coal, it produces the Greenhouse Effect. The ramifications of global warming, in fact, will prove catastrophic for people and various other life forms.
Yet the White House regularly alters scientific reports on the facts, while they squelch information on safe alternatives of energy. With centralized energy, their profits remain high, while their false economy is fed.
Safe, renewable energy means life, yet they prefer our dreams to drown in a sea of oil. What greater greed and insensitivity can there be when they kill all life forms-and even themselves—in the orgy for wealth.
Jeffrey Goldman,