These days there are a select few lunatics running things everywhere, and they connect to each other to make very important decisions. It’s incredible how those in charge always make bad decisions, it makes it seem like they’re humans or something. The problem is that even if they are rambling mad, there’s really nothing you can do. They’ve been elected at some point, so they call the shots, and the only ones there to call them out when they do their deeds is the media, and while the media would rather cover the love life of some backwater singer that no one has heard about, humankind suffers.
Right now there’s the issue with oil. There’s a number of people working to create a world for future generations, there’s a few elected officials, there’s the oil companies that lobby for the elected officials, and then there’s the rest of us. So the oil companies go to the elected officials and scream and shout about how the economy will collapse if they’re not allowed to drill for oil in protected areas, even while statistics show that the opposite is true. Then the elected officials in the capital gets on the line with the elected officials from the districts. These elected officials have somewhere along the line been convinced that oil is the only way to keep their regions populated, despite the people expressing something completely different, so they agree wholeheartedly, and next thing you know the protected areas are no longer protected, and there’s a brand new pumping platform.
This would not be such a bad thing, after all the oil keeps us relatively rich, if it weren’t for the fact that it has certain effects. The first noticeable effect is the disappearance of fish. Even the tests that they do to see if there is any oil at all drives away and kills fish. The truth is that the only substantial wild cod population in the world resides in the Barets Sea, just north of Norway and Russia. So what does this have to do with oil at all? When they breed the population temporarily migrates to Lofoten, one area that the oil companies are showing an unhealthy amount of interest in.
Because of this, these areas have traditionally been populated by fishermen, and everything grew around that. Nowadays the ministers and mayors don’t seem to have much respect for this, and all they see is the wonderful oil, that will solve all the problems and cause immense growth for all. This is of course a fantasy, the oil companies offer a measly 2000 jobs if they do get to drill.
Then of course there’s the environmental perspective. Even the oil giants admit that they can’t be completely safe against accidents. They tried saying that after an accident once, and the next day there was a major one. There will be leakages, which we can’t really do anything about once it’s started except bring out the shovels. The whole oil way of doing things is very damaging anyways. Exhaust causes terrible air in cities, toxic rain destroys forests and water, gasses break down the ozone layer and in all probably causes global warming. It’s not pretty.
So what do you do? Vote Red. If SV gets enough power, and Red is there to see to it that they actually do what they’re promising that they will, things will all work out for the best. New cars will have to be able to run on alternative fuels after 2015, we’ll cut our emissions, and we’ll be able to do what our prime minister says is so easy to do: Just let the resource stay where it is. He said it about rainforests, why doesn’t the same apply to oil?
Sincerely
Bjørn
