The NYT makes that clear in its refutation of one bit of Obama's rhetoric.
Worse, one thing they miss and the biggest, most ironic, or timid, omission of Obama's speech, is global warming itself, the meta-disaster behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But, certainly the Dust Bowl, among NYT examples, is far worse than this, too.
(For more on global warming as disaster, with a direct comparison to Deepwater Horizon, go here.)
Beyond the overarching fact of global warming, we could include inside it species extinction, shoreline erosion, island drowning and other things all worse than Deepwater Horizon.
Mountaintop removal coal mining, still countenanced in "light" form by Team Obama, is also worse.
Arguably, so is giving out new nuke plant loans without figuring out where you're going to put the waste.
The push for even more ethanol in gas tanks by Obama's EPA, when ethanol is, at best, energy-return neutral?
I guess that's why Obama wants to make Deepwater Horizon look so bad — to try to get us to forget about worse disasters unfolding or getting worse on his watch.
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