As serendipity would have it, I had just watched the movie Gasland on HBO a few hours before this segment of the Daily Show. There is something about all this that has me dipping my toe into Godly matters.
We are going down miles into the high pressure world of ice cold darkness trying to squeeze the last of the oil out of the Earth.
I once worked on a boat diving lobsters but I refused to go below 33 feet (one atmosphere) for the danger, some of these rigs are going 12,000 feet before they even begin drilling.
We are pumping millions of gallons of chemically laced water into the ground to fracture the Earth’s crust to squeeze out the last of the gas. Perhaps someone or something is trying to tell us the time has come to change our ways, or else.