Environmental protection needs to be a default with criminal consequences for those that fail to take proper precautions to avoid disaster, beyond paying for th

Environmental protection needs to be a default with criminal consequences for those that fail to take proper precautions to avoid disaster, beyond paying for the real and complete clean up costs. If this were the default we might finally be talking about the right way to deal with the cost of CO2 and methane released into the atmosphere and the true cost of doing so, which clean up of which is vastly higher than makes it economically viable.