environmental health and economic health are both for the good of the general welfare. I am not a lawyer, so I do not know the case law regarding this, but Im pretty sure investment into energy sources and infrastructure is OK.
Do I think engineers are evil? No. Do I think they are human and can lack foresight? Yes. I am not saying we are all perfect, but clearly when the failsafe FAILS there was something wrong with the planning. This isn't really meant to pick on engineers per se, but I would rather hear something other than "well, everything we designed to prevent a catastrophe failed". Obviously more planning is needed then isn't it.
Thats fine. Certainly environmentalists can be just as extreme as anti-environment people. Certainly, they are not paragons of society. However, stonewalling clean energy alternatives due to a political lobby (which the oil industry actively does, and succeeds very well in) is not what is good for anyone. Do you ever ask why gas prices are sooooo high while profits are continuously at record levels? There is a better way to live and sometimes that means that we need to go through the crap of transitioning to a cleaner energy system. Yea, it might suck initially, but i really dont want everyone to suffer because you refuse to pay higher oil prices. I mean really, you think I am upset, just imagine the people in La that now have no income because their jobs have been destroyed without their input. I mean, they had no say in this at all. No control, no options, and no where near enough money to bribe politicians to fight for them. I wonder if executives at BP will suffer so much; probably not.
