Luck Runs out
BP, unsurprisingly, was unable to cap the damaged oil well that is gushing anywhere from 5,000-200,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
My personal belief, and I would love to be wrong, is that they won’t be able to fix it. The oil drilling business is always risky, always a gamble; and as every gambler knows, sometimes your luck runs out.
I think our luck just ran out. We have grievously damaged an incredibly important ecosystem, and i don’t think it’s reparable. Not that our last big oil disaster, the Exxon Valdez, was reparable either, but the sheer size and importance of the Gulf of Mexico, its role in global ocean currents, makes the disaster that much worse.
I honestly don’t think much of what humanity does in any other venue,politically, culturally, whatever, really matters anymore. I think we just signed our own death warrant.
