Looking ahead so we don't have to look behind

I was just reading about some of my favorite causes having an effect in the world and then the next thing I read was a huge article about the gulf oil spill and how most of us are only hearing what the government and old companies want us to know while people, animals and plants in an ever widening area are becoming toxic and beginning to face damage at the least and extermination at the worst in the areas that are affected.
There is such a polarity in this world with so many extremes that could be avoided if we just looked ahead before we did the things that can bring us so much pain.
My causes are based upon people in the world not looking ahead. The wolves were almost exterminated because people decided they weren't necessary for the balance in nature. Well they were. When we have wolves in nature, only the old and the sick are usually killed for their food while when men took on killing the things that wolves used to do, the really gorgeous healthy bucks with the biggest rack of antlers gets killed instead for stuffed trophies no less. Not to mention the does who are often pregnant with next years babies.
This is just one example of not looking ahead out of millions that people around the world have done by not thinking about consequences and testing to see what might happen if they do something like damaging an underground oil reserve of huge magnitude without any real idea of how to cap it once they do it.
Why are we not demanding that these type's of things be really completely researched before oil companies are allowed to even drill in the first place? Why do we not have the best minds in the world from all areas of expertise working around the clock right now to actually fix the problem in a solid and safe way before more people, plants and animals become irrevocably ill or die from it? Why are we sitting back and allowing the government to let the oil companies who didn't research anything and had incredibly insufficient safeguards and no real back up plans in case of error to continue to allow this disaster to grow and spread?
Causes feel great when they succeed, I love it when I hear that the wild horses have had a victory against the vicious stupidity of the government (BLM) officials, but if we actually looked ahead and took the time to see that the wild horses are a huge part of our world and deserve to live free and equal with everything else in the world we wouldn't need our causes. We would have bypassed them with mindfulness and consciousness in looking at our whole world as a complete biosphere where everything is needed to make it work right. That includes us. We are the ones who are causing the imbalances that are happening on our own world. The only world we have.