TESTING OUR FAITH
Searching For Salvation From BP’s Assault On The Sea
I MET GOD IN THE MUSEUM OCEANIQUE DE MONACO IN THE SUMMER OF 1993.
If faith’s a choice, I remember clearly stepping toward it while watching the teeming gorgeous diversity of life in the salt water tanks of the museum founded by legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.
And though I’ve since fallen back to doubt, I was convinced that day that this underwater world was too spectacular, too wondrous, to be an accident.
Perhaps this is why I’m paying particular attention to what Cousteau’s grandson told Bill Mayer on his TV show two days ago.
Philippe Cousteau Jr., cofounder of EarthEcho International, is setting off the panic button that our oceans cannot recover on their own from man’s assault.
“I could cut my leg off, I could cut my arm off, I could gouge my eye out, I’d still probably survive, but not very well, and that’s what we’re doing to the ocean,” Cousteau said during the interview.
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