Today is day “n” of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, where “n” equals the number of sins committed in service of our bottomless appetite for fossil-based energy; “n” equals the number of organisms killed by the careless spewing of petroleum toxins across the globe and through every biome on the planet; “n” equals the number of organisms killed by the heedless construction of entire civilizations based on and powered by petroleum; “n” equals the number of acres of living earth ripped asunder and covered with asphalt for roads, parking lots, megalopolis; “n” equals the number of mountaintops blasted out across the landscape in the search for fuel, of tailings piled up in toxic mounds and rainbow lakes of waste left to leech into our lives, into all life.
