Gulf oil disaster: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: June 7th 2010
Gulf oil disaster: the good, the bad, and the ugly
It’s been 49 days now since British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform had a blowout, late on Tuesday evening, April 20. Oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico ever since.
The news media has gone ape-shit, as usual, losing all perspective, common sense, and usefulness. When it comes to global warming they show us polar bears, and when it comes to oil spills they show us oily birds. That’s pretty much the level of discussion in the mainstream media.
The Gulf oil leak is bad, yes, and even sad, yes, but it’s not the end of the world or even the end of the Gulf of Mexico. On a disaster scale of 1 to 10, with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami rated 10, this is barely a 2...
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