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A bowl of cereal and Good Day New York. Then the headline designated, //Gulf Spill: Day 72//. Are you kidding me? How can the advancements of mankind be so rich and developed, yet the advancements of mankind cannot fix a hole and manage the pressure of a source they tapped? To see a problem of this magnitude persist for 72 days - two and half months - will leave a indelibly sad mark on the earth’s billion year history.

I’m not Al Gore and I’m not on a mission for Mother Nature. I simply care. It does not take a genius to understand that a growing human population carries with it growing consumption. And in the fashion of indirect relationships, as once variable adjusts up, the other will respond in a downward trend. //Gulf Spill: Day 72// tells us that in our quest for more commodities, the Gulf of Mexico inadvertently needed to be claimed. As result of better market performance, biodiversity and "clean" water will be taken away under the words "We are deeply sorry."

I am sorry then for what this planet has endured. The earth has cycled before, but not like this. The earth has certainly been through periods of catastrophic distress, for which life on the planet suffered, and the strong, impervious organisms that could endure, turned into the scenes and images our Nikons and Canons capture today. But in analyzing cause, the earth responded due to natural distress, uncaused by the human footprint.

Today there are other factors that tip the scales - consumption and the fantastically meaningless word, economy. Sure, structures and systems were designed and intended to regulate our societies, and in that effort, societies have undergone great prosperity, but also abysmal tragedy. When will there be a tipping point in reason? When will people realize that repair is a process twenty times greater in time than the process of consumption? //Gulf Spill: Day 72 -// Could it be the catalyst for an irreversible tailspin that sends humanity to beg forgiveness?

Improvement occurs incrementally, not overnight. But things can go wrong in an instant. Proven with company turn arounds, improved school performance, and restoring diminshed populations of our wildlife species, change is possible. But change cannot compete with the speed of consumption. What will it take to see that if we dropped everything for a day or regulated our lives to meet a better standard of efficeincy, that another day still comes, and that we are still here, and that our lives, at the most simple and basic level, are as rich as the resources we seek?