BP's Hole in the World: The Absurdity of the Fix-It Mentality

By Naomi Klein, The Nation
Posted on June 28, 2010, Printed on July 2, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147348/

Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many coastal communities where brown poison was slithering through the marshes, part of what has come to be described as the largest environmental disaster in US history.

"Speak to others the way you would want to be spoken to," the chair of the meeting pleaded one last time before opening the floor for questions.