Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
“Americans have a lot of faith that over the long run technology will solve everything, a sense that somehow we’re going to find a way to fix it,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Tar sands oil extraction spreading rapidly, report warns.
BP is developing tar sands in Alberta and also in Venezuela, the world’s second largest reserves after Canada, where it is active on the Petromonagas block and is also considering the Ayacucho 2 block.
After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger.
There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight.