Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Ed Jewett]

I think part of our approach must be to change the language we use, the way we frame things. [There is an entire section here at DPF that discusses this in depth.] One "endgamer" said correctly that this is not a spill .. an oops, an accident, a child's clumsy mindlessness with milk in the kitchen.

This was criminally actionable negligence coupled with the arrogance of corporate power manipulating the regulatory and governmental environment and the fascist mindset of soaking off the profits to the few while saddling the many with the downside of its risky decisions. To drill to the inner core of the earth without some mindfulness and the emplacement of proper gear as a safety shut-off mechanism is sociopathic at the extreme, placing environment and economy into extremis,

This is not a spill; it is a hemorrhage. It is a self-inflicted wound.