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Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Same spill, different decade

A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can’t be stopped, despite a myriad of attempts to end the flow of crude oil. Except, this oil spill happened back in 1979…

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  1. John Bennetts
    Posted Wednesday, 2 June 2010 at 2:48 pm | Permalink

    “despite a myriad of attempts …”. My turn to be picky. How about “despite myriad attempts… “?

  2. John Bennetts
    Posted Wednesday, 2 June 2010 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    More pedantry:

    Is that word in the heading “deacde”? How about “decade”?

  3. Georgina Smith
    Posted Wednesday, 2 June 2010 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    Snap, Rachel Maddow!

    There’s a cynic in me saying this is may be the best thing to happen to the environment in decades. The logic goes like this:

    - the environment is getting rogered by (amongst other things) the results of unfettered greed, such as what BP has demonstrated by drilling in such a reckless manner;

    -gGreed is unfettered because deregulation & free markets have been in the ascendency for 30-odd years now;

    - this leak, on the back of the GFC, will contribute to a growing understanding that corporations cannot be simply trusted to act in a manner the average citizen would call ‘decent’, because their motivations are antithetical to decency where decency is at the expense of profit;

    - therefore, devastating though this leak is, it may be a sacrifice that delivers a greater gain, by generating the political will to re-regulate such dangerous industries.