ExxonMobil’s Survey on Pipelines

Do I support pipelines?  Like that’s a yes or no question?

Do I promote ripping up existing pipelines, just for the lack of something better to do? No.

Do I support building poorly engineered new pipelines through sacred and/or environmentally sensitive parts of the world, to pump a toxic sludge that will further enrich a heavily subsidized, eco-catastrophic industry with no real future?  Uh-uh.

I’m reminded of the National Rifle Association surveys that asks questions like, “Do you support the right of a capable, law-abiding citizen to own a gun as a means of protection of himself and his family?” As if there are people who say, “No, rapists and murderers can conduct their crimes unimpeded, as I look on casually?”

I support sashimi-grade ahi tuna, but not as baby food.

The world is a nuanced place in which to live.