Steffy, Loren C. Drowning in Oil. 1. McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.
Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit
The uncanny results of the BP oil spill left us speechless. Many of us are uneducated on the topic due to the lack of information or bias opinions that news stations parade on or ears. How many of us can truely say that we know all about the energy consuption of the world? Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit gives us a rivitting look at the intentions of the BP oil company and the little regard that they have for the environment and the people and animals that inhabit it. Poor management lead to catastrophic events many not as famous as the BP oil spill, leaving us in the dark.
What we don't hear about is things like the employees of BP, fearing for their lives. Having to clean up the oil was said to have caused sickness and disease, but the explosion alone took 11 people's lives and left their families torn appart. The BP oil spill is just a small reflection of BP's atrocious history. Why do we continue to lean on oil? Simply because it has not yet become apparent to the world that from this point on oil can only cause problems for us.
It lifted us from a primitive society. Now leaving the Earth over populated and headed for disaster, we turn away from the idea that it is now becoming more and more necassary to find an alternative supply of energy, but who are we kidding? Human beings are to stubborn and selfish to change on their own. This book explains the opinions of politics through the mind of Loren Steffy, a business columnist, who cleverly exploits BP's business tactics and reasons.
Response Questions: Do you think that we are learning from the BP oil spill and similar tragidies? What do you think the importance of this book has to society? What is your opinions on the lives tacken from the spill? What do you think our future holds for BP?
I think that BP will always have limits now to their techniques of acquiring oil. We are also learning from this spill because the technology has changed and ways to perform the job has changed.
ReplyDeleteI think that we will learn from this tragedy but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again. Greed and Money are the reasons for all of this and humans will never stop pursuing these things. People don't care what they do to get money as long as it doesn't affect them.
ReplyDeleteI think that from this oil spill, we will learn how to better prepare for the next one (if any) and handle it under better circumstances.
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