Silver linings in the muck

It seems insensitive to talk about silver linings in the middle of the life-killing BP oil disaster in the Gulf.  But in fact, there are a couple we should recognize and act upon now.  Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, makes the case.

There's hope, for example, that the spill is proving the folly of trying to extract every last drop of a finite resource by invading ever more difficult and sensitive places.  The past safety record of offshore...