This is an interview I heard on NPR this morning. John Konrad has written a book chronicling the BP oil rig disaster. (Click on "Fire on the Horizon"). It's brief. what struck me was toward the end of the interview. When asked, "What are you doing different, now?", the answer was either silence or, "Waiting for new regulation".

http://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/

Do you really think that spilling a few bazillion gallons of crude into the gulf and killing a few people is going to change the way multinational corporations do anything?

Profits and rising stock prices will override any concerns for human life and the environment every time.

And there in lies the reason I despise humanity in general. We are horrid stewards of this planet. We are doomed to go the way of the Trododon. Once upon a time they were as prevalent on this planet as we were. they also were touted as the most intelligent dinosaur ever and likewise was also looked at as being the dinosaur equivalent to what could have been an intelligence like ours but they died off and not in the Asteroid extinction. It is suspected they literally ate themselves into extinction.