The BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has horrified the world. Adding to the sheer scale of the environmental disaster -- the worst in US history -- is the sense that it was completely avoidable, had BP heeded multiple warning signs about the safety and stability of the operation.
Instead, the drive for profit ensured that the economic, governmental and political actors in this catastrophe felt compelled to take a series of appalling decisions.
In this sense, the crisis has put a spotlight on the way that capitalism sacrifices all other concerns for the sake of the bottom line, potentially producing even greater problems such as catastrophic climate change.
Come to a presentation and discussion on the socialist alternative to wanton ecological devastation.
| Date: | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:00pm - 9:30pm |
| Location: | UH - Main Campus, University Center (Underground), Baltic Room (Rm 77) |
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