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The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arrogance About the Environment ... Can We Change?

This spill will mark the time we started to learn about ecocide; a turning point in our realization that our industrial, carbon-dependent way of life cannot last.

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Who knows, we may even start treating the planet as if our lives depend on it.

Chip Ward is a former library administrator, grassroots organizer, citizen-activist, and the author of Canaries on the Rim and Hope’s Horizon. He now writes from Torrey, Utah.

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