Jim Sensenbrenner, BP Investor And GOP Congressman, Won't Recuse Himself From Oil Spill Hearings

No. Even if this was about getting the best talent in oil engineering or any other field (& it's not; the government attracts precisely the kind of people we think we want in public service, i.e., top of their classes, award-winning, UNethically-challenged, but it's the corrupt, greedy, intellectually-challenged political appointees & the politicians who've appointed them that are responsible for our predicament), that's not what or who is required to solve these problems.



Deregulation & privatization of US resources & the political ideology that it came from is the overarching problem. Oil engineers figured out how to go where no man has gone to get oil, but they didn't figure out how to prevent accidents or respond to them or clean them up without destroying the ecosystem we all rely on to live.



We're governed by an economic system that dooms us to extinction. When it was regulated, capitalism worked well, with one major hitch: It requires constant growth to sustain itself. Growth = new markets. More people. It might work if we had an unlimited supply of planet earths (along with its resources). But we don't, & the planet has limits. There's no problem that exists where the solution is "More people, please", & yet we've let far rightwing extremists dictate that people who don't want to continue pregnancies be forced to.



We let a lot of people's ideas that aren't in our individual or collective interests take flight & become laws which we all must abide.
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