BP management is responsible for the oil disaster, not consumers

Did consumers cause the BP oil disaster?

Definitely not, according to Ian Angus, the editor of Climate and Capitalism and associate editor of Socialist Voice.

One of the myths of modern capitalist society is that big multinational corporations are simply responding to what consumers want. If the average consumer did not want their products, there would be no market, and hence the corporation would fail. This risible line of reasoning has popped up to shift the culpability of the BP oil spill onto the consumers, and exculpate the BP higher level management, who are responsible for this disaster and its terrible environmental and economic consequences.

Go read the whole article here; Did Consumers Cause the BP Oil Disaster?