Hohoho. I wasn’t saying it would be worse (although since it is ongoing that possibility cannot be ruled out) I’m saying it will seem worse. Granted I wasn’t alive then but the information cycle was different then. Heck just think about how different your idea of world affairs was before the internet and FR.
More importantly there are agendas to be pursued stemming from this by powerful men. Soros is going to milk this thing for all it is worth and you can bet it will be invoked to help pass some kind of environmental legislation.
In that regard it is already worse than Ixtoc.
I thought you were saying it wasn’t a media-hyped disaster. I was alive in ‘79 and 24 years old. I never heard of Ixtoc until a few weeks ago. I think that says a lot about how much this is media hype.