Distance lends perspective. With BP’s blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico now shut off for two months, it is becoming possible to take a clearer view of a disaster that was previously distorted by the fury of the American public.
While the leak was vast – probably the world’s largest accidental oil spill – it has not killed off all life in the Gulf of Mexico, nor needed a nuclear explosion to stop it.
And notwithstanding the prediction by Barack Obama, the US president, that the disaster would “shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come,” it has become apparent that the energy industry and policymakers are going to try to behave as if it never happened.
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