The earth is bleeding

Is it possible that in the grand scheme of things the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a good thing?  Sometimes we need to be hit over the head to wake up.  This oil spill, as awful as it is, and I think it's the worst thing to happen to North America in my lifetime, still represents only a fraction of the destruction of our environment perpetrated by oil companies.  They have been destroying the earth by bits and pieces for 75 years, drilling in places where the indigenous people have no say in what happens, no voice to cry out when their lives are destroyed by pollution and loss of their livelihood.  The Nigerian delta, once one of the most biodiverse regions on earth is now a tar pit.  Fishing is gone, disease is rampant and the oil companies are in partnership with a corrupt dictatorship that sells the birthrights of its people to feed themselves.  Will we wake up now?  Now that they have dirtied our own back yard, polluted our own fishing grounds.  Will we begin to realize what has been happening in South America for decades?  Oil is the root of all modern evil.  It spawns multinational companies that hide behind free enterprise to mask a total lack of conscience about the raping of our planet.  They are responsible for the destruction of our rain forests, where we lose areas the size of Connecticut each year.  They construct roads into the forests to gain access to areas they know will yield only meager amounts of oil but will attract multitudes of poor people eager for farming land, clearing the trees like army ants devouring everything in their wake.  They conspire with corrupt politicians to thwart populist uprisings that might inhibit their lust for more and sometimes they are complicit in crimes including murder to further their goals.  In 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, a vocal and popular environmentalist was executed in Nigeria for speaking out against the raping and devastation of his homeland.  There are serious allegations that some oil companies, specifically Chevron and Shell, were complicit in helping the corrupt government to quell uprisings and execute Saro-Wiwa.
So is our oil spill a good thing?  British Petrolium may go bankrupt.  It's stock is falling like a shooting star and if it get's hit with enough penalties, even this multibillion dollar blood-sucker may go bust.  But what then?  Will they no longer be responsible for paying their debts?  Will the executives exercise golden parachutes and slink away into the ether while BP assets get bought up by Chevron and Shell for pennies on the dollar?  And then who will clean up the mess.
Oil is a curse.  Those who were screaming "drill, baby drill," only a year ago are now screaming at the government for "letting this happen."  They let it happen.  They caused it to happen.  They enable these blood thirsty corporations to feed on us and to destroy things in weeks that took millenia to create.  I fear that oil will spawn war as it diminishes in availability.  China will want their share and one day their government will trade weapons for oil to governments that just want to kill.  The west will want it's share and their people will not tolerate higher prices, inflation and long lines.  They will encourage more drilling, more imperialism and rape of underdeveloped countries.
There really is only one answer.  We MUST find a way to replace oil as our source of energy.  It is a human imperative if our species is to survive.  As I see it, the only answer is to develop 'fusion energy' as impossible as that may seem.  We should create a multinational consortium of scientists, fund it with a %10 oil tax on every oil company in the world, and develop an alternative.  If we don't, as the oil runs out, so will our societies and our cultures and our humanity.