FWIW, I hated harshing my own buzz too. I like a good bandwagon as much as the next intertuber. Cory* got my hopes up and now I gotta go oil my pitchfork and put it back in the closet until I have more facts.
*I do and always have believed in Cory’s sincere and honest good heart. But he’s human, and I think his headline jumped the gun a bit at (very understandable) outrage over yet another man-made ecological disaster.
I also think there’s a very solid point to be made that there’s fundamental flaws with any industry that lets this sort of thing happen over and over again. Sacrificing the ecosphere to profit is and shall cost us far more in the long run than the immediate gains that benefit a few people and mainly a very few of those few. While I’m not convinced Paul Allen is the villain here - or ever that, if he does bear some of the blame, that he’s the primary or only one - the economy that creates situations where pleasure yachts can destroy coral reefs is not something we as a species can afford to subsidize with the sacrifice of our common natural treasures, most especially among them the sea.
