“This would have been the 100th birthday of Jacques Cousteau, the 20th century's iconic explorer and explainer of the sea. The timing is either perfect, or terrible: it falls in the middle of the country's worst marine disaster in memory.”
“In a telephone interview from Venice, La.--the town closest to the site of the leak on the gulf floor--Cousteau's grandson Philippe Cousteau Jr. said his grandfather would have been astounded by what's happened over the past 53 days.”
He "would look at this oil spill as I do and be horrified by our continued willful ignorance and arrogance that we can exploit nature, that we can maintain our dependence on fossil fuels, and that there [will be] no consequences," Philippe Cousteau said. "It's a frustrating time right now, because you have to wonder, when is enough enough?" ... READ MORE http://views.washingtonpost.com
