OIL BP – OPP

The video above was created and produced by artists on BC’s Sunshine Coast, and is a parody of Naughty by Nature’s 1991 song, “BPP”, and is as clear an example as any that shows how information and reaction travels the Internet – galvanizing artists world wide to comment and add to the push to effect change. My prediction is that this video will go viral within the week, meaning the flutter of the butterfly wings in this tiny Canadian coastal community will be felt around the world.

The credits for the video are a glimpse into one rural community and shine a spotlight on reaction that would otherwise go unregarded in the world:

Rapped by the styling of John Jamin (johnjaminmusic.com), Johanna Renée and back vocals by Caitlyn Turcotte. Duane Burnett (duaneburnett.com) plays Tony Haywire BP’s CEO. Lyrics are written by Marc Buzzell and have been recorded by JJ at Straitsound Studio in Robert’s Creek — straitsound.com. Shot and edited by Marc Buzzell on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC. Special Thanks to Ray Fulber, Rick from the gas station location, the guy for the classy truck and all the many other people whom helped.

This is an instance reminding us once more of the incredibly powerful shift humanity is moving through; as epic and transformational as the invention of the printing press. Even if you live in a rural community about as far away in North America as one can get from the Gulf of Mexico, your opinion and efforts count. .

Whether we actually have more environmental chaos than in the past – freak weather patterns, garbage islands forming in the Pacific Ocean, deep water drilling going very bad – we certainly now have an almost instant window into the earth and our place in it through the power of the Internet to transmit uncontrolled information. That gives us POWER – to share, to hold accountable, and to CHANGE.

We need to remember that as powerfully destructive as our race can be, we are capable of just as much brilliance and stewardship. We are each responsible for our contribution – or lack thereof, apathy being one of humanity’s more prevalent characteristics – and as this video says, it’s up to you and me, and our SUV, to be the change we seek from corporations like British Petroleum.

Cost of Oil Comparison

Only when we are willing to pay the ACTUAL cost of our oil consumption are we taking real responsibility ourselves. Until we will agree to pay more for oil than for water or champagne, in recognition of the huge environmental responsibilities that must be undertaken as we remove fossil fuels from the earth from increasingly dangerous and unpredictable environments WE are as much the problem as the oil companies and their shareholders.

So, like the Oil BP video creators have shown us, let’s use the power of globalized communication to ask each other the hard questions, have conversations as brutal as seeing a pelican coated in oil, before we’re like the fishy skeletons swimming through the sludge of what we have created.

RELATED INFORMATION:

Oil BP Facebook Fan Page

The Real Cost of Oil: Institute for the Analyisis of Global Security