volatile veins spreading across the US, poisoning our land and water and air, and sparks resource wars across the globe at the cost of countless lives - all for the profit of a few who pull the strings.  What they are fighting at Standing Rock is a much larger picture = and failure means accepting another +4 decades of oil-addiction infrastructure which will further blight the earth and our societies which have grown addicted to this black plague.

Self dependency with geothermal, wind and abundant solar energy as renewable sources would free us, yet this black tar shackles every human being on the planet and are forced to live with this toxic beast in their presence.

Hands down, the United States Military is the largest consumer of OIL on the planet, to keep the gears of its forever-at-war machine churning.  (End energy dependence in all forms) and you end war.  Sadly, our modern world is still savage, and mankind has not evolved even one step in the right direction.