Loading ...We are all living on the thin crust of a big ball of molting magma. Plus it’s spinning around, and floating thru space. We’re lucky things are this good. The planet is alive, and does what it naturally does. It gradually shoves land masses down into the magma, and magma flows out of volcanoes, makes more land, and then more room for more land to sink into the magma.
Remember when Iraq set all those oil wells on fire? Mother Earth didn’t even notice it. Remember the Oil erupting out of the bottom of the gulf of Mexico for a long time? And the Exxon Valdez mess? A cargo pilot friend of mine that spent his life in the air, in a 747, told me the absolute worst things for the environment are volcanoes, and humans have nothing to do with volcanoes.
The new global economy will gradually phase out many of the old artificially created unnecessary occupations that cost society money. The EPA? Parks Dept? HnR Block? Accountants? Secretaries? Goodbye with simple tax returns. Many others. Domestic manufacturing will probably absorb all the gradually unneeded people.
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of Coalition
The fires were started in January and February 1991. The last well was capped on November 6, 1991