After telling ourselves for so long that our tools and technology can control nature, suddenly we were face-to-face with our weakness, with our lack of control, as the oil burst out of every attempt to contain it -- "top hats," "top kills" and, most memorably, the "junk shot" -- the bright idea of firing old tires and golf balls down that hole in the world.
Nakon što smo si tako dugo govorili da naši alati i tehnologija može kontrolirati prirodu, iznenada smo se našli licem u lice s našom slabošću, našim nedostatkom kontrole, dok se nafta izlijevala iz svakog našeg pokušaja da je zadržimo -- operacije "Top hats", "Top kills" i, nezaboravno, ubrizgavanje smeća -- mudra ideja o ispaljivanju starih guma i loptica za golf niz tu pukotinu u svijetu.