Alaskan Oil Drilling
The arguments over Alaskan oil drilling have heated up in the last few years. It’s debated endlessly in political circles. This article shows some of the opinions people express about it.
Conservationists are dead set against Alaskan oil drilling. One commented: I can’t believe this is even an issue. Areas of Alaska are the last untouched wilderness we have. What will people do when it’s gone? If we wreck it, it will become a memory. Let’s keep one place like it was before man stepped in and ruined things.
Here’s a possible reply to that. Man is not a plague or an infestation. The issue is not destroying the planet. We’re not capable of that. The issue is whether man would ever make the planet unlivable for man. That would come long before the planet was doomed. For the most part man’s efforts have improved the planet for habitation by man. So shut up.
A reply to the reply is that it’s fine to discuss issues, but don’t be mean about it.
Here’s a comment from someone for drilling. She said: The area under contention for Alaskan oil drilling would be like a dime on a table top. It’s tiny. There’s a lot of oil there that we need. There are many ways to ensure very little environmental impact even directly in the areas where drilling takes place.
A reply to her is: Let’s stop this drilling for the children. If everyone wears a windmill on their head, we won’t need any more oil.
Not everyone who hates Alaskan oil drilling knows the facts. One wrote the following: We can all stop using oil tomorrow if we only try. Stop driving, start walking. It’s good exercise.
Yet that person typed their opinion on a computer. The computer case, and many of the components are plastic. That’s petroleum based. That’s oil. Get it?
Not all the pro Alaskan oil drilling people are geniuses: Let the malibou die, we don’t need them. They can’t build SUVs.
That’s caribou, not malibou. Maybe someday soon someone will steal your SUV while you leave it running. It would serve you right.
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