The Gulf of Mexico trash heap

Just thinking about the Gulf crisis and how we treat the earth like like children who soil themselves. Even animals will not soil their own nest -- but not us! How many times will or can we do this? We can't live with the oil companies and we can't live without them. The only answer is either alternative fuels that do not harm the environment -- what are those? Or hold the corporations accountable for their failures and enforce strict rules about business practices - whether it is coal mining safety or off shore drilling. What's happened in the Gulf is the same as if NASA had sent a man to the moon with no idea how to get him back should something have happened. BP (BRITISH Petroleum - not a US company) had no back-up plan should something fail. They gambled and we lost. We all lost -- not just the people of the Gulf or the wildlife there. We - the entire population of the earth - lost. We've lost an irreplaceable resource for decades or maybe forever. We (and I include myself) need to dramatically change our behaviors if this earth is to survive as a place worthy of life.