Wishful thinking

Self deception is an inevitable result of a civilization hell bent upon illusion. The present oil spill in the Gulf is an excellent example of this. After the explosion there were immediate under estimates of the damage .... we could relax and the President could proceed with further off shore oil drilling elsewhere (?). A day later it was evident that this mammoth "blow out" would not have a convenient exit, no amount of wishful thinking would help. ps. An oil burn was proposed to prevent this spill from moving toward the coast, almost the perfect panacea proposal, supposedly proven as a way to do this at a burn off Nova Scotia years ago. What became of this version of wishful thinking?

A further development here has some of the energy czars suggesting that it will probably be nuclear power that will be a more convenient panacea than off shore drilling. I guess they missed the news out of Russia this same Earth Day week which proves that the Chernoble disaster had been largely covered up, and the victims and damaged survivors (most of whom are dead) was in the millions, not as earlier downsized by the Russian government. When will they ever learn?