. >> now, antonia juhasz talks about the 2010 oil rig explosion which killed 11 men and released millions of barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. this is an hour and a half. [applause] >> thank you all for coming and thank you -- the center for biological diversity and for helping me celebrate the launch of might look "black tide" which was just released on monday and time for the one-year anniversary of the explosion of the deepwater horizon. i wanted to hold this event on earth day. i can't think of a better place to do it then it is boys and poets which has always made such a wonderful home for me and for my books. i think this is the third book in a row that i've launched and headed up event at us boys and poets right here which is incredibly wonderful. busboys and poets supports our arts and supports are learning and it supports are being able to come together in rooms like this and talk about critical events at a critical time. and i am -- please support busboys and poets not only tonight but every night and future events. i also wanted to pull together an event for earth day tha

you have the risk of accidents, and this gets back to what antonia juhasz was saying. they are rolling the dice, and it's just a matter of time. it was not so much an accident, but an accident waiting to happen, and so that's why really we need to be working together more than ever to make sure this doesn't happen again. we have to get rid of offshore drilling. >> [inaudible] [applause] >> i'm sorry, didn't mean to jump in, but i think more importantly, we have to get rid of our addiction to oil and the idea that all of us here use oil somehow today to get here. you may have flown on a plane to get here. i think that's one the reasons why people don't get emotional about this because they think i'll drive down to the coast so i can like fight the oil. wait a minute, i just drove in a car that used oil. no, it just how do you turn that around? that's the bottom line. as far as the, you know, the business and the fines, you know, the $20 billion is ridiculously low. i just was fined $200 for putting a ketchup bottle in a trash can that was not a recyclable can. that's a