Richness of the potential

Just the thought of how rich the potential is that resides in oneself, one’s ideals and the ideals of a community have the ability to set us apart from living as mere individuals and pseudo community leaders giving us the ability to transcend that potential by subtly taking society to the next level of what it means to have a sense of humanity and liberty throughout the world. 

Think of the most bio-diverse place you can think of. Picture that place as rich and full of life that thrives off of one another and depends on each other’s way of living to survive. Imagine all of that and then think of and then imagine it sat on a resource worth potentially billions of dollars. Would you uproot that place in order to make a quick few million? Well when I put it that way fuck it, right? Wrong. Remember the movie Avatar? Let’s think of the nature at that level, on a planet that has yet to be industrialized the way the majority of Earth now is. An area so rich and diverse with life that it seems inconceivable that anyone would ever try and wreck it no matter how profitable it might be. I know I wasn’t the only person NOT rooting for the greedy guy who was exploiting the Natives nor for the power hungry colonel in that movie, right?

Now let’s talk about Ecuador. Maybe you’ve heard about this on the news already or maybe you haven’t; more likely you’ve probably heard of the twerking of Miley Cyrus and that is straight disappointing. I mean Miley twerks and people lose their minds, but you mention Ecuador or Syria and no one gives two shits (not one or two). I mean Jay-Z warned us of this potential for Miley twerking in his album, we should have seen this shit coming. That’s how it is though, we (Americans) are warned of things far before the consequences are about to be reached from said warning, and then guess what, checkmate; thing happens and we react as if we knew nothing.

So the question is what the hell is going on in Ecuador? I’m not a journalist, so I’m going to pretend to inform you on this to the fullest, but I can just shoot you with these facts from various sources. The area’s estimated oil reserves could be worth more than $18 billion, according to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. The potential reversal of a policy to keep that same area for the potential preserve is eight times bigger than Los Angeles. President Correa did this reluctantly after presenting a carbon-dioxide abatement plan to the UN in 2007 that would have blocked development of these types of fields.

The point of this is that WE need to stand up for these types of issues. Standing up for Issues that exploit a Country and a people who are dependent on that land, issues that put the whole world at risk; if done it would put out around 407 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That 1 degree rise that is the supposed boiling point for climate change will be that much closer to fruition and WE HAVE TO speak out against things that are more harm than good, not only for us, but for the future of the world.

Share this with your peeps. Let’s do something about this.

~B