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So environmental damage to many thousands of square miles (how many cubic?) has no/low implied cost, only human damages?

That's not exactly a good message to be sending to businesses.




That's not what I said. Rather, much is made about how BP is not doing enough, yet what it has already done dwarfs what UC did. And Americans didn't bat an eyelid.


Aaaaaahhh, my mistake. I read it wrong, I see it now. Though that doesn't counter the amount of attention the spill has had, nor the damages (it's direcly affected more than 20k people, certainly, though yes it's not the same). Americans have a decent isolationist bent to them, I think that's part of the reason. It happens when you're the biggest fish in the pond - you get to thinking you're untouchable, so others matter less.




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