By John Ballard
This video from the Wonk Room speaks for itself.
They also have a brief commentary and over three hundred comments in the comments thread.
Miller's remarks in the above clip end at 57 minutes into the hearing.
It was followed by a three-minute litany of BP safety failures and poor
safety record. The following two minute summary by Rep. George Miller underscores a toxic mixture far worse than anything occurring in the aftermath of the Underwater Horizon failure, that being the incestuous manner in which a poisonous corporate culture at BP mixed with a similarly poisonous bureaucratic culture at Minerals Management Services, their presumed regulatory authority.
It is now clear that this tragedy was a preventable occurrence.
It's too late for the media to change the language but every time I see words like leak and spill I want to scream at the TV or radio.
This is not a "spill".
This is not a "leak".
What we are witnessing is a hemorrhage of crude oil from the earth which is the ecological equivalent of a volcanic eruption, a tsunami, a category 4 or 5 hurricane or a 100-year flood.
It may have been Candy Crowley, but this morning I heard someone on CNN ask "Don't we have a word beyond catastrophe"?
"Don't we have a word beyond catastrophe"?
ReplyDeleteHow about The Chaos Point?