The theologian Thomas Berry wrote that the great work of our lives is to reconcile with nature to come to establish a communion with every living species on the planet, with all humans, the animals the plants with the land the air and the water. As children of a common creator, we are part of every living thing. This requires reverence for the natural world. When we look at the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we learn how far we must journey to reconcile with nature. The false doctrine of subduing the natural world puts us in danger of extinction. Because it ultimately aattacks the precondition of human existence. and because it separates from and understanding of the essential interconnectdness of all life. So we are lulled of distancing ourselves from the oil disaster from it's effects on the natural world. from it's effects on future generations. Nature's God is not just up there, but within all of us. And only when we truly understand the deep significance of the deep water horizon disaster will we be prepared to take a new direction, not only with our energy policies, but with our way of life.
-Dennis Kucinich

Within our culture of capatilism, the consumer has all the power. Demand of oil created this situation that threatens the life in the oceans, and without life in the oceans we will not survive.

It is imperative to establish three situations:

• 1. Drive down the demand for oil by using as little as possible.
• 2. Create a demand for new green energy sources.
• 3. Try to reverse the disasters on our earth that we have created.