The oil tanker stranded on a Brittany beach
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The oil tanker stranded on a Brittany beach
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In the US that would have taken at least three times as long, cost three times as much, required six times as many workers, been on the nightly news with protests from somebody, been the site and subject of a tee shirt industry (product range from Save the Beaches to I Visited the Tanker Disaster and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee Shirt), and made millions in billable hours for environmental consultants, lobbyists for tanker lines, the oil industry, the Sierra Club, and lawyers for everybody. Think how we would have commercialized the nuclear power disaster in Japan. When did we turn into a nation of people who seek to profit from every occurrence in the universe?
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I read at the time of the Italian shipwreck that such things are much more common than we'd think... it's only the really big or weird ones that get any media attention.
Thanks for posting such an informative link!
Thanks for posting such an informative link!
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Aug 2nd, 2010 12:43 PM