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Obama Compares Gulf Oil Spill To 9/11 Tragedy
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(06-14-201005:47 PM)BrownDicky Wrote: In an interview with Politico News outlet last Friday, President Obama stated:

“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.”

The truth, however, about the comparisons being made between the attack on September 11, of 2001 and the Gulf Oil Spill of April 20, 2010 is simply this – both of their years have 2’s,0’s and 1’s in them – and that’s about their only similarities.

I disagree. It's an analogy, not a direct comparison. Having hijacked jetliners destroying our skyscrapers at will was intolerable, so we acted to prevent it. By the same token, having an ocean and major wetlands area fouled with millions of gallons of oil that takes months to stop and decades to clean up is also intolerable. And if it isn't absolutely preventable, which it may not be, then major changes need to be considered for the future of deep-water offshore drilling and perhaps shallow-water too.

Add to that the global warming trend from burning fossil fuels, the political consequences of oil-dependence, and the finite nature of global oil reserves that will eventually run out anyway -- all of which are longer-term problems that haven't demanded our immediate attention -- and it can be argued that the immediate problem is a tipping-point for addressing all the connected problems we've been neglecting.
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RE: Obama Compares Gulf Oil Spill To 9/11 Tragedy - by altezon - 09-08-201009:06 AM

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