Crises often precipitate action

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Barack Obama is seeking to use the environmental crisis wreaked by the BP oil spill as an opportunity to push through environmental legislation, writes Henderson's Seb Beloe

In 1959 John F Kennedy explained that when written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters: one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. Half a century later and President Barack Obama is seeking to use the environmental crisis wreaked by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an opportunity to push through increased environmental legislation. Economic discontent He has form in turning a crisis to political advantage. Both the passage of healthcare reform and financial legislation have been greased by economic discontent stemming from the credit crisi...