Tim Bray on corporate hate
I completely agree with this - BP aren’t the problem, oil addiction is the problem. Could just as easily have happened to any other oil company:
Recently I tweeted (and I apologize for the coarse language): “Unlike apparently everyone, I’m not pissed at BP. You gonna live on fossil fuel, shit gonna happen. BP drew the short straw.” Which didn’t seem to me that radical a thing to say. It’s far from established that BP is significantly worse (or better) in its practices than the rest of the industry. Seems to me that it’s not one oil company that’s befouling our species' only nest, it’s our systemic addiction to cheap energy and aversion of our eyes from what that does to us.