This week a local pundit connected the dots between BP's Gulf Disaster and Pogo, who once observed: We have met the enemy and he is us. BP's management is driven by its stockholders' focus on the bottom line and the need to be number one in the industry, with disastrous results, and this isn't the first time, either. But we, as stakeholders in the health and viability of our land and our planet, are also responsible. It is common wisdom that the drug wars along the border with Mexico would dry up if there were no market for drugs in this country. The same logic applies to the drilling in the Gulf of Mexico or fighting wars to secure a pipeline--supply and demand.
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