Consequences and Risks From The Use of Oil - Ecological Sustainability-Melba-July2010

Ecological Sustainability and International Trade
- Consequences and Risks from the Use of Petroleum -
Melba Grullón Ubiñas*
“Many things exist that we don`t know, but when we know them everything
changes” (Johannes Markus Mandelbaum, Author of “The Thought. The Decisive Power”)
On April 22th, 2010, the Petroliferous Platform Deepwater Horizon sank in the Gulf of
Mexico. This Platform was property of the British Petroleum company, presided by Tony
Hayward, member of the very exclusive “Bilderberg Club”. Until that fateful April day, BP
was defined as the third most powerful company of those that operate in the United States.
That power that they attribute to this company - or, better said, they attributed- is based
on its economic development and income-generating, ascending to 327 billion dollars
in 2009 and gains declared of more than 6 billion dollars during the first trimester of 2010.
For the prevailing capitalist system, the voluminous generation of money is the main
indicator to consider a company - and often, a person- as example of extraordinary success
and synonymous of what the gurus of the economy, base of our present western societies,
have called: Progress and Development.
Because of persecuting that progress and development based on the voluminous

generation of money, we have arrived as civilization to a point peak in which the human
beings, almost irrationally, we seem not to prevent all the possible consequences of
our erratic actions as far as the excessive exploitation of the natural resources of
the Planet, because – paradoxically- this company, until recently leader of the economic
success, has caused with the petroleum spill caused as a result of the explosion and later
collapse of this petroliferous platform, the already declared “greater environmental
disaster in the history of the United States”. But this, not only affects the United
States.
The cause is the excessive human avarice in the exploitation of -in this case- petroleum.
The effect is the set of all the consequences that this cruel exploitation brings with itself,
mainly, the ecological damage that lamentably in many cases is irreparable (like the
extinction of some species, for example).
Ecological Sustainability
The Ecology “is the science that studies the relations of the living beings to each other and
with its surroundings. It is also the defense and protection of the nature”.
The ecological sustainability talks about the preventive answer that all human beings
have responsibility in giving, as administrators of this beautiful blue pearl who is our
HOME; for the conservation and perpetuity of the living beings as of the environment
where the sustentation of all physical life becomes possible.
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In the images below, we can see examples of the serious consequences our ecological
system is exposed by the extraction of petroleum:
 Alteration of the normal process of the ecosystem. Like an interconnected system,

whatever happens in the ground repels in the air, and what it repels in the air affects
forests, and rivers. Whatever happens in the rivers repels in the lagoons… and so on.
 The “black spot” that the hydrocarbon forms in the water is like a floating lamina
which prevents the light of the sun penetrates, but this sun light is necessary so the
photosynthesis can be made. This situation causes that the primary organisms are
themselves affected and with them all the nutritional chain.
 This contamination causes the extinction of marine species, birds and the death of
the plankton and the reefs of chorale, which are great oxygen producers.
 This contamination also reaches the atmosphere in polluting gas form that we also
breathe although we were far from the place of the spill.
 The economic losses associated to the petroleum spills are also enormous, because
the towns and coastal cities where the fishing plays an important role could go to
bankruptcy.
 The spills cause damages to the tourism, because beautiful landscapes can be
transformed into black stained petroleum places, and that´s the reason why this also
represents great economic losses for hotels, restaurants and coastal stores, in
addition to unemployment and enormous losses for the States.
 Damages to the terrestrial ecosystem, because when the black tide reaches the
coasts the beaches are dyed of black and the rocks are covered with a hydrocarbon
film. The crude is introduced between sand grains and penetrates in the
ground, therefore the contamination of the land takes place. The most affected
living beings are the invertebrates which live in this ecosystem. The film of crude
forms a layer that prevents the growth of new plants and animals.
 But, the most serious of the consequences from perforating Mother Earth to extract
petroleum to use it as fuel, is intimately related to the question that apparently few
people make:
What is, in fact, the Petroleum in the body of the living being called Earth?
According to the Dictionary of the Real Spanish Academy, petroleum is: “Natural, oily and
inflammable liquid, constituted by a hydrocarbon mixture, which is extracted from
continental or marine geologic beds. Different usable products with power or industrial
aims -like gasoline, kerosene, gasohol- are obtained from it by diverse operations of
distillation and refining”.
Other outstanding definitions and characteristics found from diverse sources are:
 It is a composed hydrocarbon mixture from carbon and hydrogen.
 At the moment, it is the most important power source.
 Practically all the productive processes, the production of electrical energy and the
world-wide transportation, depend on petroleum.
 It is a nonrenewable resource. It is finite, like the minerals, because it has a

limited amount as far as its extraction, reason why at some time this resource is
going away to exhaust.
 The carbon dioxide released after the fossil fuel use, like petroleum, contributes to
the famous greenhouse effect and to the global heating.
Regarding the origin of petroleum, the most popular theory is the one that postulates
“the petroleum was formed by means of several and diverse prehistoric rest of terrestrial
and marine animals, and terrestrial vegetables, which mixed with sediments, under the
tremendous pressure and compression of the terrestrial layers, like the heat of the depths,
managed to form it. This process is obtained with the passage of million years”.
It is so the progress and material development of human being, according to as we

conceived it at the moment, is taking us to consume -approximately in the last
200 years- which cost to the nature millions of years to create.
These definitions we found about what the petroleum is, are definitions from the human
point of view, these are not definitions from the certainty of what that “Natural Liquid…”
means for the living being who contains it inside: Mother Earth.
I explain myself: The definition of our human blood, according to the dictionary, is “Liquid,
generally of red color, that circulates around the arteries and veins of the body of the
animals. It is made up of a liquid part or shapes and cells in suspension: cells, leukocytes
and platelet. Its function is to distribute oxygen, nutrients and other substances to the cells
of the organism and to gather the remainder products from these”.
If, for example, we would had tiny beings living on the surface on our head, who could
extract our blood to use it in certain activities; as they have not become aware that they
live on a living being, the definition they would also give for our blood would possibly be,
simply: “It is a natural liquid…”
When a living being is losing its blood –its vital energy- it can suffer anemia,
serious convulsions and, finally… paralysis. To prevent that ending, its immunological
system reacts to look for the lost equilibrium balance, which is necessary for its survival;
and that reaction or natural regeneration entails forts movements in practically all its body.
These movements shake –mainly- to everything it has on its surface.
Ancestral Wisdom
There are only few indigenous communities in our world. Lamentably, the majority of them
have been exterminated, by Genocide; first because of their resistance towards
“evangelism or civilizing actions”, then because of their resistance to the named “material
progress of the white man”.
Nevertheless, it is quite touching the wisdom the natives expresses as far as the harmonic
and systemic relation of all the living beings with the Earth, to whom they consider
SACRED and call it “Pachamama”, Mother.
One of these indigenous towns is the U'wa people, inhabitants of the deep forests of the
Colombian east. Their name means “intelligent people who can speak”. They are caregivers
and singers of the forests (they sing to the life, harmony, nature, water, hummingbird, to
ruiria, corn… -to everything alive-, and through their singings, they transmit their ancestral
wisdom).
The Law of the U'wa is "Not to take what is not needed".
In 1992 the Western Petroleum, an American company, and Royal Dutch Shell, a Dutch–
British company, acquired the rights with the Colombian government to develop a
petroleum project in the heart of the U'wa territory. Since that moment, the U'wa people
have tackled a courageous struggle in defense of their culture, life and sacred territory.
The U'wa people have wanted to make the world understand that the extraction of the oil
would bear irremediably to a big destruction on the Planet. They express their warning with
the following words: "The oil is ruiria and ruiria is the blood of Mother Earth... to
take the oil is for us as killing our own mother ".
“Any living being has blood: any tree, any vegetable, any animal, the Earth also and its
blood (ruiria, oil) is the one that gives the force to all: plants, animals and men. But we ask
the riowa (“white man”): How can you put a price to the mother and how much is this
price? Anyone that commits an outrage against the mother also attempts against her
children, who attacks the mother Earth attacks us to all, through whom we live today and
to through whom then will come. For the Indian the Earth is a mother, for the “white man”
it is hostile; for us her creatures are our sisters, for him they are only goods”.
“Then we wonder: Who is the savage? The white man has declared the war to
everything, less to his interior poverty. He has declared the war to the time and even to
himself, as was saying another Indian brother from a distant town: “The white man rides
on the progress towards his own destruction".
International Commerce
Although we manage to raise our conscience up to the point of being able to understand
the wise words of the U'wa, their warnings, and those of other indigenous peoples as the
Hopi Indians, for example, who also live in harmony with “Pachamama” without assaulting
her as we do, the reality is that stopping the use of the resource on which we have
made all the productive processes, the production of electrical energy, and the world
transportation depend on, is indeed a superlative challenge, because it would imply to
TRANSFORM radically the whole system of life, imposed since about 200 years ago.
The International Commerce depends in most cases on the mobilization of goods on ships,
planes, trucks … that work with fuels derived from the oil. Then, our challenge is: For
lack of oil: How would the movement of goods be on a global scale? What would
be used to replace it?
In Dominican Republic, for example, in Year 2009 and the first four-month period of Year
2010, the volume of the imports of the crude oil and its derivatives -in gallons-, according
to information given by our Department of Hydrocarbons, was:
The first Four-month

Product Year 2009
period 2010
Crude oil 390,461,407 130,009,467
Fuel Oil 317,081,001 119,195,825
Natural Gas 211,685,612 104,735,150
Premium Diesel 61,410,398 42,952,061
Regular Diesel 253,182,535 60,987,411
Premium Gasoline 108,488,247 44,290,837
Regular Gasoline 107,031,210 57,844,821
GLP 501,191,270 136,133,909
Jet Fuel 66,563,730 37,835,217
NAPHTHA 15,612,206 2,955,405
Although posing this big challenge of looking for substitutes to the use of the oil and its
derivatives turns out to be a quite complex and difficult matter, the fact is that we cannot
keep on postponing it any more.
Perspectives
The Intuition and common sense, and even the instinct of survival, take us then by hands
towards the use of CLEAN ENERGIES.
Something positive resultant from this disastrous experience of the spilt in the Gulf of
Mexico is the renewed interest from governments of developed countries in the use of
alternative energies that could substitute the oil.
A lot of these clean energies are already kept around there since a long time ago; since the
times of the great scientist Nicolas Tesla, for example, but they had not woken up the
sufficient interest on those who administer this world, to develop them and introduce their
implementation to the masses. This is it, perhaps, thanks to the huge economic and
political interests that have existed till now behind the business of oil, so lucrative for some
and simultaneously so perniciously for the world and all its inhabitants.
But now when the world is a witness of the aggravating consequences wrapped in the
extraction and use of the so-called “black gold”, come it is the moment to initiate this
transition, before the convulsions of the Mother, because of the constant received
aggression, leave us in conditions of entire insolvency, so as correctly express the U'wa:
“To the rhythm in which it goes the world there will be one day in which the man replaces
the mountains of the condor by mountains of money. For that time, this man will not have
already to whom buying anything; and if it were, this man would not have anything to sell
to him. When this day comes it will be already too much late so that the man ponders on
his madness... Whenever a species becomes extinct, the man approaches his own
extinction”.
“Every extinct species is a serious wound for the life. The man will reduce the life and then
it will begin the survival ... perhaps earlier the greed is moved to pity of him and allow
him to see the marvel of a world and the nobility of a universe that spreads beyond the
diameter of a coin”.
Let's hope we are still on time to look for the alternatives that allow us to change the
course. So be it!
* The authoress is Initiated in the tradition of The Sacred Order of Melquisedek
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Bilderberg
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_bilderberg.htm
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/index.html
Letter of the UWA to the white men

http://www.indo-america.org/uwa/uwa.htm
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more than 6 billion dollars for the first trimester
http://novedadesera.blogspot.com/2010/05/british-petroleum-el-peor-desastre.html
BP Oil Spill's Tony Hayward activates Bilderberg member

http://www.bpcomplaints.com/2010/06/bp-oil-spills-tony-hayward-active-bilderberg-member-with-
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Spill in the Gulf: Shared fault?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/internacional/2010/06/100621_2038_derrame_petroleo_culpas_comp
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Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy

http://www.rae.es/rae.html
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EEUU Judge who allowed perforations has petroleum investments

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My Answers.com
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Person in charge for the agency that was supervising oil industry in EEUU had a “too narrow
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Ecological Sustainability and International Trade

- Consequences and Risks from the Use of Petroleum -

Melba Grullón Ubiñas*

Because of persecuting that progress and development based on the voluminous

 Alteration of the normal process of the ecosystem. Like an interconnected system,

 It is a composed hydrocarbon mixture from carbon and hydrogen.

 At the moment, it is the most important power source.

 It is a nonrenewable resource. It is finite, like the minerals, because it has a

It is so the progress and material development of human being, according to as we

The Law of the U'wa is "Not to take what is not needed".

The first Four-month

* The authoress is Initiated in the tradition of The Sacred Order of Melquisedek

Letter of the UWA to the white men

BP Oil Spill's Tony Hayward activates Bilderberg member

Spill in the Gulf: Shared fault?

Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy

EEUU Judge who allowed perforations has petroleum investments

Ecological Sustainability for Life

1. Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion (America Latina en

4. Club Leo Moca

6. Comunidad Signia. Aprendizaje Colectivo

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