How fitting for a large-scale environmental and human disaster to happen in the good old polluted USA on Earth Day, 2010. It is a vivid reminder of everything the United States has yet to learn about taking care of the planet. And it offers a compelling reason to reconsider Barack Obama’s recently announced plans for “limited” expansion of U.S. offshore oil and gas drilling.
With today’s massive explosion and complete destruction of Deepwater Horizon there’s been a tragic loss of human life, and the threat of an oil spill that could really make a mess of the Gulf of Mexico.
Think big oil is going to put the brakes on deep water drilling because of this? Think again.
