Empathy, action and painting pretty pictures

If you have not had the chance to view Michi Kaku's: "A photographic essay of the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico" on facebook, it's worth it. I viewed this, feeling and sensing, allowing the images to tell the stories. Tears were rolling down my face...but more interestingly, for the first time in my live I wanted to be an activist, DO something, even if going there and washing the birds.

I am not saying that this oil spill was not necessary as a huge wake up call as well as grand timing for alternate energy companies to make their bid. I save judgment on the grander meaning or purpose. The planet so desperately needs the establishment of alternate and clean energy sources - as well as a consciousness of energy preservation, so painfully lacking in the USA that visitors from Europe comment on the wasteful ways we live.

The point here is: If you emphatically feel, how long can you sit at home painting pretty pictures, when you are not also active publicly, socially in the larger arena? Not saying there's anything at all wrong with painting pretty pictures (or other such related activities)...just wondering.

There's a saying: "Just say NO to apathy" gxxaxx
and there's : "Get that head out of the sand" so you can see what's happening around you.
"Wake-up" -> then "DO it" and DO IT NOW.