Camelot Lost

I feel embarrassed to be an American. This decline in integrity, values, ethics and even lack of spirituality is getting to me. The current oil spill crisis is U.S. caused, even though the company is British Petroleum. The U.S. oil industry lobbied to relax standards on the underwater equipment because they didn't want to pay the extra money for safety. All other nations ponied up and made sure their rigs were safer. Now, here we are (the U.S.) polluting the earth again. Earth Day my ass.

We are the ones who taught other countries how to create plutonium and nuclear power and now we don't like the proliferation. Nuclear power is NOT safe. It is subject to terrorist attacks, and would be far more devastating than the tens of thousands of birds and wildlife we will kill with the current oil spill crisis. A serious nuclear accident or terrorist attack on a power plant could wipe out the country or world. My friend just told me the old nukes here in the Monzano Mountains are leaking radio active waste into our water supply. Great! We won't have to worry about 2012, we'll all be dead by then.

Our new "conservative" president is too "thinky" to make any serious change in our national energy policies. So we continue on with old out-moded "drill and spill" oil rigs and new potential nuclear meltdowns (because no one will remember past human error and the true nightmare of reactors gone haywire.) We are not moving fast enough to convert to clean energy sources like wind and solar. I would get up and leave (the U.S.) but if those of us who actually remember that history repeats itself, turn over the reins and let the upcoming uneducated slackers with no morals or ethics run this place, we're certain to fall like Rome. We're already in deep decline. And, no matter where I go, America will manage to screw up the entire planet. Truly tragic for those of us who grew up with Camelot dreams.