Carbon Free Girl - A Race Car Driver's Journey to Be Carbon Neutral

June 19, 2010

When I was a little girl, I believed in unicorns. I had seen a movie called "The Last Unicorn" and in it, only certain people could see unicorns. I used to look for them in the woods. I suppose you can guess how that turned out. These days, after being to Louisiana and seeing the oil spill up close, I am struggling to believe in humans.

We cause so much damage and seem to have so little regret. As if the Earth is ours to throw away, the oceans ours to pollute. We are the beast that walks into the beautiful rainforest, cuts down the trees, or burns them so we have more room to grow cattle to be killed for our dinner. The incredible variety of animals we share our planet with, we arrogantly treat as if they are less than us, as if their lives mean nothing, as if they only exist for us to kill.

Now normally I try to be positive about our future. But floating in the ocean and seeing nothing but crude oil for as far as the eye can see, was definitely a smack across the face with the reality of the magnitude of damage we can really do. So when I was having this moment of being overwhelmed with the death and destruction I saw in the Gulf, I wrote this - which, in the end, became my version of the world's most depressing Hallmark card:

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