Monday, May 31, 2010

A Spill Afar: Should It Matter
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
New York Times

For the last month, Americans have watched with growing horror as a huge leak on a BP oil rig has poured millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As I wrote on Sunday in the Week in Review section of The Times, there is also shock that technology has so far not been able to control it.

But it is important to remember that this mammoth polluting event, so extraordinary here, is not so unusual in some parts of the world.

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