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Dear Mother Earth, Call a Doctor...Your Blood is Gushing...
June 24, 2010 
By Mitchell J. Rabin, Host of A Better World
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Yes, the Earth is wailing as BP is fudging in plugging. What kind of government is this that doesn't require "worst case scenarios" among oil drillers, on and offshore, to be exhaustively explored, so that there are "solutions for catastrophic failure"? But apparently, not only does the government not require such, but BP's own Board or shareholders don't require this either. Wouldn't you think that, just to protect their investment--forget about the environment--they'd want to know what the potential cost of a catastrophe? Are they really such poor, short-sighted businessmen? It appears so. And the feeling I have gotten from observing the President of BP and the Chairman, on TV during the hearings or after the Chairman's meetings with Obama, gave me an eerie sense of heartlessness. The upset seems to be about their revenue loss a lot more than the devastation to the environment or the local economies being knocked out because of BP's poor business choices.
One of those poor business choices I happened to learn from the 'inside', the result of which is this disaster. BP opted to go with the less expensive fluid-plugging systems, using seawater actually, instead of others which cost a bit more, but utilize a more viscous material, which also works a lot more effectively. The business choices that BP has made over its 102-year history beginning in Iran and exploiting the locals there, plus the government, ultimately leading to the overthrow of Iran's democracy and leading then to the installation of the Shah by the CIA in around 1953, have made it into more than a felon. Like other huge corporations, they are so insulated from the people they are supposed to serve, their 'customer base', they can't respond to anything but their own insular, egoic needs.
This is a cry for the need of really developing other green technologies, energy sources--solar, wind, electric based on advanced technologies, yes, the kind of work we do at A Better World!
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