{"id":6,"date":"2010-06-23T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/innercubicle\/2010\/06\/oil-spill-is-it-our-fault-after-all.html"},"modified":"2010-06-23T06:12:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T06:12:28","slug":"oil-spill-is-it-our-fault-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/innercubicle\/2010\/06\/oil-spill-is-it-our-fault-after-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill: Is it our fault after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Friedman wrote a provocative post in his NY Times column<\/a> about the oil spill.  In it, he quoted a friend who wrote:<\/p>\n

“I’d like to join in on the blame game that has come to define our
\nnational approach to the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of
\nMexico. This isn’t BP’s or Transocean’s fault. It’s not the government’s
\nfault. It’s my fault. I’m the one to blame and I’m sorry. It’s my fault
\nbecause I haven’t digested the world’s in-your-face hints that maybe I
\nought to think about the future and change the unsustainable way I live
\nmy life. If the geopolitical, economic, and technological shifts of the
\n1990s didn’t do it; if the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 didn’t do it;
\nif the current economic crisis didn’t do it; perhaps this oil spill will
\nbe the catalyst for me, as a citizen, to wean myself off of my
\npetroleum-based lifestyle.”<\/p>\n

Is it right for individual citizens to claim some blame for this catastrophe?  Is the public pointing too many fingers and not taking enough responsibility?<\/p>\n

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