Barack Obama Is PISSED. Apparently So Is Mother Nature. Stop And Listen, World. This Is Serious.

NPR has learned that at least ten times the original official estimate of oil is currently gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker full every four days.

It as already far exceeded the spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska in 1989.

People look at me like I am nuts when I talk about reducing my ‘footprint’. Consumption means nothing to most Americans. Nothing. Not the word… nor the act. It’s all taken for granted.

I guess people think the electricity coming into their homes and the gas at the pumps just magically appears.

In the past year we have cut our utility bills at home by more than half. No exaggeration.

I am currently working with a friend on a custom built, two-seater, covered trike… high-return human powered… with solar/generator backup.

Why human powered? Because I am so tired of being part of the ‘lazy’ generation. What better way to be mobile, give back to the earth and get into great physical condition at the same time?

In the meantime, my daughter and I have started biking anywhere we can so we’re not using fuel in the car.

Life is a very simple thing. I swear… it really is. And our constant demands of the earth and mother nature will, historically and statistically, only lead to more periodic disasters.

I have so much of the world left that I want to see. I want those same things still there for my kids and their kids and their kids to be able to look forward to.

People can go ahead and think I am nuts for drastically reducing my own usage. But it’s not as hard as people might think.

And the generations after me won’t have me personally to hold accountable when there is nothing left but rot and chaos.

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NPR Report