{"id":1134,"date":"2025-10-02T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/will-we-learn-more-from-the-earth-day-oil-spill-than-from-katrina\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:03:00","slug":"will-we-learn-more-from-the-earth-day-oil-spill-than-from-katrina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/will-we-learn-more-from-the-earth-day-oil-spill-than-from-katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Will We Learn More From The Earth Day Oil Spill Than From Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Will we learn more from the Earth Day oil spill than from Katrina?\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/6334\/7264\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill we learn more from the Earth Day oil spill than from Katrina?<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/register-richard\/\">Richard Register<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t06 May 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Happy Earth Day! Here comes the oil spill! BP\u2019s Deepwater Horizon, state of the art oil drilling platform digging into the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico 5,000 feet below explodes, killed 11 workers, burned into early morning Earth Day April 2010, toppled, sunk and released what may end up as the worst technologically caused natural disaster in American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&nbsp;Blame is everywhere: BP, Transocean the owners of the drilling rig, insufficient regulation, a faulty \u201cblowout preventer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Has anyone suggested it might be the car driver\u2019s fault, or the people who laid out the sprawling city thus addicting everyone to oil, oil, oil? No one mentions consumer\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">With that level of willing ignorance or guilt or whatever it is that won\u2019t even look at the most obvious link of all, the ultimate cause, what should we say? At least we should say, well, do something about getting rid of your car and helping reshape your city so you are not addicted to oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Five and a half years ago Katrina hit the coast exactly where the oil is hitting it now. Afterward not a word was said about sprawl development that placed car-dependent single-family houses on thousands of acres below sea level. That\u2019s denial at the most fundament level, the level of most basic demand for the oil that, when burned, makes seas higher, air hotter and hurricanes more furious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The solution then is to rebuild with apartments and mixed uses \u2013 and on a very small amount of land \u2013 in that region with elevated fill. The French Quarter is built like that on a natural high levee. The University New Orleans, too, but on artificial fill. In the floods of Katrina that school had little damage while those below seal level experienced millions of dollars in damages. Compact development also goes along with energy conserving streetcars and bicycles. It also means much land could go back to the natural buffering of regional wetlands. Artificial fill is what the first cities in human history were built on so that, 4,500 years ago, the cities of the Sumerian civilization simply rose above the flooding Tirgis and Eupherates \u2013 nobody hurt!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Truly basic solutions like that last thousands of years. That dense way of building \u2013 and kicking out the car \u2013 remains the solution and will deep into the future, preventing oil spills and stopping climate change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"disqus_content\">\n\t\t\t<a name=\"comments\" id=\"comments\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_shortname = 'broker'; \/\/ required: replace example with your forum shortname\n\t\t\t\tvar disqus_identifier = '5073';\n\t\t\t\t\/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * *\/\n\t\t\t\tfunction trackComment(comment)\n\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tfunction disqus_config() {\n\t\t\t\t\tthis.callbacks.onNewComment = [function() { \n\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(comment);\n\t\t\t\t\t}];\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tvar dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text\/javascript'; dsq.async = true;\n\t\t\t\t\tdsq.src = '\/\/' + disqus_shortname + 'https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/.disqus.com\/embed.js';\n\t\t\t\t\t(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);\n\t\t\t\t})();\n\t\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n\t\t\t<!--\n\t\t\t<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/noscript>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t-->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will we learn more from the Earth Day oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_2.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will we learn more from the Earth Day oil spill than from Katrina? \/ Global green economics \/ Blogs - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Happy Earth Day! 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