Pandora imagery also works.

Pandora opens the box and all these terrible things come out. War, oil spills, pestilence, plague. And then she shuts it before the most useful thing comes out – shiny hope.

I would say we don’t want people to shut the door to funding for fusion projects, because that’s the hope of humanity in the face of all the billowing, relentless, oil based havoc.

Colbert and Stewart keep joking about the response to the spill being “release the kraken!” It should be “release the fusion”