Disaster must be catalyst for change, says Jean-Michel Cousteau

Source: timesonline.co.uk

ean-Michel Cousteau, one of the world’s leading ocean explorers, has spoken of his “frustration at the human species” over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and called for it to become a catalyst for political, industrial and environmental change.

Describing the slick as “the worst oil accident anywhere on the planet”, the 72-year-old son of Jacques Cousteau, the pioneering underwater ecologist, said that the consequences for Man and nature would be monumental. “The sad side of the human species is that we talk a lot and take very little action until we have a catastrophe on our hands,” he told The Times.

“I don’t want to call this doomsday. I want to believe we can sit down with decision-makers and industry and government and convince them that there’s a better way to manage our life support system. We can do the good thing or we can keep destroying it.”

He added: “I hope that this is the kick in the butt that’s going to make our decision-makers change the way they operate.

snip>

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7135421.ece

did little to change any attitudes, so I haven't much hope for that, but maybe this time it'll be different.

Bad case of karma.

But they'll be looking for their "big government" support checks.

Hypocrites.

they want more dollar bills. Americans don't have balls or brains and it's why the sociopaths are in power.

BP (Billions in Profit) will continue to do business as they always have. The idiots in the South will continue to vote against their own interests and complain about us tree-huggers in the rest of the country as they also complain the government didn't act fast enough while at the same time they want to do away with all of the government except the DOD.