The USA is well acquainted with disastrous crude oil accidents. Eleven years ago an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform killed 11 workers, injured 17 more, and discharged roughly 4.6 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The incident cost BP more than $65 billion to clean up, destroyed thousands of acres of ocean reefs, and killed thousands of marine animals. Just over two decades prior,
By Richard McCorkle, Guest Author
As a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I’ve been concerned about global warming and climate change for more than a quarter century. In the late 1990s, when I finally had the means to do so, I began privately investing in socially and environmentally screened mutual funds. I felt it was the right thing to do; I was putting my money where my mouth was.
Water pollution is not just a technical problem. It’s an emergent property of our flawed economic system.
Brent Blackwelder recognizes and respects the righteous role of regulations.
The trouble with transportation is petroleum, and the problems are providing a chance for true transformation.
BP’s big blunder bestows a benefit: here’s a happy holiday to propel the shift to a progressive paradigm.
Wisdom won by watching the World Cup: soccer is a steady stater sport!
Additional energy accidents await: hidden subsidies and externalized costs are the precursors of preventable pollution.
Brian Czech elaborates on the inevitability of environmental calamities as long as economic growth is the goal.
Dolts, dimwits, and dunces: Herman Daly delivers a dose of reality on what denotes “dumb.”