> When crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait, invented new techniques on the spot and put the fires out in a mere six months, that did not get a

> When crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait, invented new techniques on the spot and put the fires out in a mere six months, that did not get anywhere near the hype that the initial dire predictions got. The problem here is that the parallel to the burning oil wells are already on fire, have been on fire for years, and the collective response hasn't been one determined to address this, it's been a fight between people who are saying there's a problem and people who are saying the idea of burning oil wells is a conspiracy (and even if it's not, we didn't light the oil wells on fire).