Our continuing dependency on oil for fuel and other petroleum based products such as plastic is clearly unsustainable, as has been so poignantly illustrated by the on-going BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Greenpeace campaigner, Paul Horsman writes from Louisiana, “it is not oil that society needs, (or for that matter coal or nuclear power); what society needs are the services which these provide. And increasingly societies energy needs will be provided from sources which do not, either in their production or use, cause catastrophic environmental destruction of the scale that we are witnessing in the Gulf of Mexico.” Read more here |
