Wait Just a Minute!

There are a few things that have floated across my internets that I want to make sure you see and one big point I want to make.

First off, check out this post by Matt Davis, former Portland Mercury editor who's now living in New Orleans, on his personal blog. They held a mock funeral for the Gulf of Mexico. If the people who are at ground zero for this disaster are holding a funeral already, what do you think the odds of this turning out well are?

Second, the jobs numbers for May have come out and it's not too good. Five thirty eight has this post up explaining in great detail. But essentially, about 90% of the jobs added in May were temporary census worker jobs. The good news, even when you subtract the census workers at least we didn't LOSE jobs...

But the big point I really want to make here is that we're overlooking an opportunity. This is a horrible issue that's going on in the Gulf. It has business and environmental impacts. But we aren't using this (black) golden opportunity to push for true policy changes in our country! If there has ever been a better example of why we need to push, both as citizens, and as government policy, for a sustainable energy future with renewable sources of energy then I don't know what it is. This is it people!