It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Someone else was saying that this is a teachable moment - maybe.
Gulf Oil Spill: A Symbol Of What Fossil Fuels Do To The Earth Every Day, Say Environmentalists:
"McKibben is the founder of the global grassroots climate-change Web site 350.org and his latest book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet is about adjusting to a changed world.
'Our problem is not primarily that there's a stuck valve in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. That's a terrible problem,' McKibben told HuffPost. 'The bigger problem is that there's a stuck economy based on fossil fuels that the president hasn't really done anything major yet to fix.... The problem is that the whole system is dirty from beginning to end.'"
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