Who’s afraid of the big black wolf?
Big Oil hides behind Red Riding Hood’s cloak
to disguise its threat in a dance of misconceptions.
It floods our digital world
with pretty commercials selling safe
while it mixes hazardous chemicals
with our drinking water to pour
down shafted earth throats
to regurgitate profit.
to regurgitate profit.
Fracking with our eco system
puts all forms of life at risk,
but petroleum spin plugs our ears with lies
to worship at the throne of blue flame.
People rise up and use your voices,
be louder than the noise bleeding your security.
Oil barons with corporate names
don’t care about environmental issues
unless tragedy implodes their bottom line.
©Susie Clevenger 2013
Since June is the month of Allen Ginsberg's birthday Kerry at Real Toads encouraged us to howl or rant about something we feel we needed to let off some steam about. I have several rants, but I chose fracking as the theme for this one. It doesn't matter to me how they sell or spin the safety of fracking there are so many things that can and do go wrong. Here are some links if you would like to do a little more reading on the process. I have even included the one where big oil sells its safety in an attempt to be balanced in my information.
Comments
@Maggie Grace, thank you so much!
http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/13/frack-to-the-future
Either way, your rant is passionate!
Very important issue. Glad you took up focus on one thing... I was all over the place!! Amy
@Helen, it is a scary possibility
@Emma,I hope so.
@Sharp Little Pencil, Thank you. I will check it out!
And there's nothing we can do unless we seriously rise up and shout, not on our blogs, because we're just Women With Blogs, but out on the streets, every day, in every weather, by the hundreds and by the thousands, until someone realizes we're the victims in a very, very bad war.
K
@Sherry, thank you.