Posted 9th January 2014 to the Southland Times Invercargill
What Rotten luck that Otago Southland is going to have a great offshore oilfield exploration programme
Just as the world is freaking out about Climate Change and wasteful resource depletion. Yes, it is still business as usual in the Oil Hungry Global Market place but at some point there will be a Quantum Shift when the Madness has to end.
Don’t expect any warning. It’s likely to come like a thief in the night. Politically speaking it’s something not even science fiction has prepared us for.
If you are observant you will note Top Scientists agree this WILL happen but don’t agree on when, but they do agree that Drilling for Hydro-Carbons will be In Dangerous Situations will not be the priority it once was.
In the mean time our region seems to be comfortably tucked away from current planetary physics in a sort of 19th Century Bubble, a magical place where all our natural resources seem to be illuminated with little dollar signs, and there are no important consequences to actions of the great and powerful.
Or as the Green Party would say: La La Land.
printed 14/1/14 page 6 as "Business as Usual"
What Rotten luck that Otago Southland is going to have a great offshore oilfield exploration programme
Just as the world is freaking out about Climate Change and wasteful resource depletion. Yes, it is still business as usual in the Oil Hungry Global Market place but at some point there will be a Quantum Shift when the Madness has to end.
Don’t expect any warning. It’s likely to come like a thief in the night. Politically speaking it’s something not even science fiction has prepared us for.
If you are observant you will note Top Scientists agree this WILL happen but don’t agree on when, but they do agree that Drilling for Hydro-Carbons will be In Dangerous Situations will not be the priority it once was.
In the mean time our region seems to be comfortably tucked away from current planetary physics in a sort of 19th Century Bubble, a magical place where all our natural resources seem to be illuminated with little dollar signs, and there are no important consequences to actions of the great and powerful.
Or as the Green Party would say: La La Land.
printed 14/1/14 page 6 as "Business as Usual"
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