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May 28, 2010
The Lessons of History
It’s not impossible for the ecologic disaster now evolving in the Gulf of Mexico to become the deep sea equivalent of the “Dust Bowl” that added so much to the woes of the Great Depression.As someone who grew up in the East and was only four years old in 1936, I never appreciated the degree to which mismanagement of America’s grasslands had added to the miseries of an era I had lived through, but not experienced directly.
However, just reading that history now is all it takes to see that the same hubris and impatience for profit that allowed Midwestern topsoil to be blown away in the Thirties have also been responsible for whatever economic blight will follow the release of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Even so, the world doesn’t seem to be paying much attention...
Doctor Tom
Posted by tjeffo at May 28, 2010 04:22 PM