Oops They Did it Again

This morning's Los Angeles Times Opinion page has a pointed essay on the inevitability of oil spills by Charles Wohlforth. Worth reading the entire piece.  

 

Each generation has to learn a new lesson about our limitations; about humility before nature. The story of the Exxon Valdez is complex, but its moral is painfully simple. Technology fails because humans fail. Spills are inevitable. And once they happen, good intentions are useless. We can't fix nature.