Secondly , the anti-pollution and rubbish-recycling industries can be profitable ; additional income is generated by low-wage workers cleaning up the environment after it has been fouled up by rich people . After the largest oil spill in history , the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico , J.P. Morgan analysts concluded that the business generated by clean-up work would very likely be larger than the financial losses to tourism or fishing , resulting in a net increase in GDP . However , the Bureau of Economic Analysis stated that the economic effects of the BP oil spill were " generally embedded in the source data that underlie the estimation of GDP and the national accounts and can not be separately identified " . On September 5 , 2014 , a US federal court ruled that BP had been " grossly negligent " and that that BP repeatedly cut corners to boost profits
2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Tendency of the rate of profit to fall