my biggest concern is not the oil spill in and of itself.....its how vulnerable we are in the face of large scale calamities and natural disasters (katrina, 9-11, oil spills, earth quakes)
we have become arrogant and complacent; overconfident in the limits of modern technology
for example: if a month ago you asked me what would happen if a cap blew off an oil well deep in the sea.......i would have said that it would probably be pretty easy and common to fix, and that there is a group of super scientists in some institute somewhere whose job is to come up with solutions to problems exactly like this
......but as we see, no one knows what the FUCK to do
Now lets think of something bigger , like a large comet heading towards earth.........alot of people say things like the government probably has it figured out, like a super-secret laser somewhere that was purpose-built for JUST such an event........PROBABLY NOT THE CASE
we cannot even cap an oil well..........we would be FUCKED if something like that was headed towards earth
