Here is a link to a good follow-up from a scientist that cares. When he spoke to his true convictions, find out what happened here. Also, if you want to know whether out of sight — out of mind actually makes the oil disappear and its harm go away check out the entire article. The comment below struck me. Do we want to hear the truth?
“I feel sick that people don’t want to hear the truth about risk,” he told me.
The risk Steiner talks about the most these days is the one posed by our continued use of carbon — to the grave detriment of the planet. As Steiner told me for that first story I called him about, all that carbon spewed into the Gulf was headed into the planetary ecosystem anyway, through our tailpipes.
“Our lives have been one enormous, century-long oil spill, globally,” Steiner said.
The U.S. alone uses some 20 million barrels of oil a day. Simply adopting tougher efficiency standards for power plants, cars and trucks, and electricity transmission could cut that amount in half, Steiner said. “We’re wasting twice the amount of the entire Deepwater Horizon spill ever day.”
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