June 5th International Environment Day!

Chilean activists are celebrating the June 5th International Environmental Day by advocating against dams harnessing hydro-electrical power in the pristine regions of their Patagonia. They have carried a terrific campaign against the “powers that be” to stop the assault on their lands, mountains, rivers an oceans.

In this link you will get a better picture of their work:

http://www.patagoniasinrepresas.cl

Their pictures clearly depict the before and after state of their land if the “Aysen Hydro-electrical Enterprises” are allowed to “follow the money” while destroying the environment.

I certainly wish we could have had the foresight to have the equivalent before and after pictures of the Gulf of Mexico before this disaster happened. Except no one would probably have followed them because greed’s voice is louder here…And we had pictures and stories of very similar spills and tragedies caused by BP before. We didn’t listen. Do we need a two-by-four? Hopefully this will be our wake-up call. But this wake-up call is not just for the enlightened few, but for all of us. Remember J.F.K.’s dictum? “Ask not what my country can do for me, but what I can do for my country!”