Drill the Arctic?

[pHEN]

www.defenders.org/releases/pr2006/pr052506.html

Why or why not?

I say no. No way in freezing hell. At its peak (years away) it will save Americans ONE CENT, while at the same time making a Polar Bear extinction likely and threatening populations of animals that only reside in the already dwindling arctic landscape.

[Richard]

There are few places of natural beauty left and the Artic, Alaska, Antartic are 3 of the only places left.

They should be left alone and these oil barons should take this money they earn ($400,000,000,000 or sommet a year) and invest it in alternative methods of fuel.

[Saerin Zei]

Save the penguins!

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The rest has already been said...sooo...>.>

[Adam]

and the Iglu people, I forgot name :$

[Liu Bei]

I say no, one cent won't help.

And if someone drills the artic, I'm sure we'll f*** up eventually so bad that it'll effect the whole world or something..

[Richard]

jimmypop1 said:

and the Iglu people, I forgot name :$

Inuit

[pHEN]

Lyle, its too late not to f*** up. We fucked up thousands, perhaps twn thousands of years ago. Fucked up again a few hundred years ago. f***ing up further as we speak. I only hope that the human-started apocalypse leaves the animals and plants relatively intact.

[Guan Yu]

No, I personally hate the idea, sure hope they won't

[Huang Zhong]

Drilling the Arctic? I don't think that's even going to be possible. Besides, those Americans don't have the f***ing right to go and drill there. Since when does the Arctic belong to America? If they want to destroy stuff, let them f*** up Alaska or something.

And Mike, it's not too late. We didn't f*** up 2000 years ago, the sky was beautiful and there was no pollution. The Industrial Revolution fucked it all up. So blame the British!

[Guan Yu]

Lets not, the British f***ing own.

[Huang Zhong]

No, they don't.

[Guan Yu]

Yeah... They kind of do.

[pHEN]

erik said:

Drilling the Arctic? I don't think that's even going to be possible. Besides, those Americans don't have the f***ing right to go and drill there. Since when does the Arctic belong to America? If they want to destroy stuff, let them f*** up Alaska or something.

That's exactly their plan - drill the arctic wildlife refuge (in far north Alaska)

And Mike, it's not too late. We didn't f*** up 2000 years ago, the sky was beautiful and there was no pollution. The Industrial Revolution fucked it all up. So blame the British!

2000 years ago, agriculture was on a steep rise, and civilization had begun to bloom in the middle-east. The two of which are connected, and together started the movement towards what we have today. Even before the Industrial Revolution, we were slightly above the population I'd say is the maximum for a healthy earth. I, honestly, place a great deal of blame on the Akkadian Empire (5000 years ago) for starting us down the path, and the Romans for accelerating it. As well as ever mercantilist nation during the colonization times.

[Sun Jian]

I don't know why - but until now I thought this thread read:
"Drill the Attic?" (Curse our lack of funny smilies!)
Yeah its a bad thing - the strongest nation on earth being reliant on oil has gotta have people worried, especially if you live in Iraq Iran. Well at least this one will probally kills less humans than invading elsewhere in the middle east.

[General Pang]

The Arctic in my opinion should be reserved for the animals. Actually so should America in my opinion. All the white people should head back to Europe with their machines and give Aztlan to the Mexicans and the rest of the US to the Native Americans. Hopefully if several old tribes are given back America they will be able to oversee the land as well as they did before asshole Europeans came, and that means that animals will prosper well.