An editorial by Carl Safina:
(CNN) -- The blowout is stopped. The oil disaster that began with an explosion 100 days ago has not ended by any means. But we seem to be seeing a murky ending to the beginning of the crisis.
...No one knows whether the seafood and tourism and fisheries will be clean and healthy again next year or in a decade.
We should be willing to learn some lessons.
One is that this catastrophe wasn't just an accident. It was the result of reckless corner-cutting by the oil company and scandalously compromised oversight by the government. As U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, observed, "BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure."
Visit http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/28/safina.oil.lessons/index.html?iref=24hours#fbid=22e7t8rcxto to read the entire article.
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