March 18, 2005

Just to go on the record as an Alaskan, I believe that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is wrong.

  • There’s not enough oil there to provide anything but a last gasp to the epoch of fossil-fuel power.
  • What is there won’t be available for several years to come.
  • The money that will be sunk into drilling there could produce alternate energy technologies that no one has even imagined.
  • There are plenty of places left on the North Slope that are not protected habitat.

I wish I could figure out a way to express how important I think it is that some parts of the earth remain unexploited. I mean I wish I could express it in a way that would change someone’s mind.

I’m afraid that in my lifetime the majority of humanity will have reason to regret the way we’ve treated our home.

I’m riding my bike to work as often as I can.

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