Anyone who has met me knows I've been fanatically watching every moment of the World Cup while spending any remaining time reading about the oil hemorrhage. (It's not a spill.) And as I anxiously wait to see whether South American fútbol or European fußball will prevail, BP continues to burn sea turtles alive.
I have been feeling depressed and disheartened by what is happening in the Gulf. It’s so bad I don’t even like the word "beyond" anymore. I'm realizing that being overwhelmed by a big crisis may cause us to think that our personal actions are meaningless.
But this is where we’re wrong, dear friends.
Here is where I would normally say how you can reduce your oil consumption. I would say to eat less meat because producing animal protein requires 8x as much fossil fuel as producing the same amount of plant protein. I would say to use less plastic because plastic production in the US alone requires 200,000 barrels of oil per day. I would say lots of things. But I think at this moment, we should put off our guilt -- quite temporarily, of course -- and bask in the pleasure that annoying the shit out of BP execs will bring us.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before the World Cup and the BP Oil Hemorrhage converged, but they finally have: Some guy named Adam Quirk is organizing a crowd-funded protest to buy and blow 100+ vuvuzelas all day long in front of BP's London headquarters.
He writes, "Anyone who pledges $10 gets the satisfaction of knowing you just bought a vuvuzela that will undoubtedly frustrate some smug oil baron."
Half of the money will go toward purchasing and shipping the obnoxious horns and the other half will go toward the Center for Biological Diversity's Gulf Disaster Fund.
Although I think the idea of this project is laudable, I hesitate to sanction it because I'm afraid the vuvuzelas are made of {gasp} plastic. I will leave it up to you to decide, but if you'd like to contribute to this effort, go here.
We may not be able to do to BP what they are doing to sea turtles, but maybe at least we can annoy them to death.
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I love it! Is this a BYOE (earplugs) event? How about the vuvuzela owners mail theirs in at the end of the WC, thus recycling. Can there be a vuvuzela flotilla to dog Mr. Hayward when he's out sailing? (And I hear you saying it's not permissible to fry the BP execs? Drat.)
A vuvuzela recycling program...I love it! Let's pitch it to this Adam Quirk fella.
I'm going to make my purchase and bask in the delight that several BP executives will need to put in ear plugs and pop some Advil to get through their work day (their headaches don't even begin to compare to the suffering experienced by the burning sea turtles!!). SO FOR THE POOR SEA TURTLES (& in the spirit of the World Cup), I SAY "GOOAALLL" (may many turtle-loving people blow those high pitched vuvuzela's all day long!!!). My one regret is that I cannot be there to annoy the sh*t out of the BP executives and disrupt their day. GOAL :-)) !!!
I agree with you all the way sister!!! less plastic, less oil, more veggies, more awareness, soccer mania, all of it!!! Unfortunately most of the havoc that is reeked on us whether environmentally, socially, economically, spiritually, or what ever else I missed is inflicted upon us by specific intent and design. The rest is mostly a clever distraction. Yeah let's make lots of noise! We live our lives in the championship match for the Cup!! For All the marbles;Cheers to Green by Red!!!!!!!!!!!
i say we buzz the hell out of BP's ears.
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Awesome blog, great write up, thank you!
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