Bleeding

The Earth is bleeding. After poking holes in the Earth all over the globe, Mankind has finally hit an artery. Whether the bleeding will ever stop is unknown by the experts that so proudly proclaimed that all that they were doing was safe and controllable. Petroleum is the heroin of business and technology. My life would be very different without petroleum. I don't know how difficult it would be but I am sure that it would be. I would be colder in Winter and have to rely on locally produced food. Even the candles that I would normally use for lighting during a power outage come from petroleum.
We have only one Earth to live on. This bleeding will soon spread to almost all of the Atlantic region. I am sure that British Petroleum is aware the the Gulf Stream will slowly bring those chickens home to roost in Britain.
There will be no more blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay, the mansions in the Hamptons and Newport will reek of the substance that made their construction possible, and Chatham will be sending out for clams and scallops and lobster. Nantucket will reek of oil as it used to reek of oil from slaughter. Every creature, except for Man, on the planet knows that you don't foul your own nest. The oil will spread over half of the planet. Some day there will be a spark that might turn the Earth into one huge kebab. There will be accusations of government corruption and laxity in regulation and finger pointing galore. Global warming will become Global Grilling.
The Earth is bleeding but some day it will stop. Once it has rid itself of the parasite that caused the bleeding, the Earth will go on somehow. Life will adapt and go on somehow. Mankind, we had a good run but it looks like the show is over. I will miss the scallops but I don't think that they will miss me.