RE: The Threat of Oil Drilling

Steve Brenneis writes:

And, of course, the Sierra Club is a completely objective and unbiased source for this information.

Whether or not the facts and figures they quote are correct, and with the Sierra Club that is highly suspect, that pristine and lovely wilderness isn't worth anything if the toll for foreign oil dependence is world war and ruined economies. One of the signal ironies of American radical environmentalists is that they want these huge tracts of land to be left completely undisturbed, even including all human visitation (except, of course, for the elite members of the Sierra Club). What good is the beauty of this land if we cannot enjoy it? What good are the remote reaches of Alaska if the energy required to get there is so cost prohibitive that no one can go there?

Environmentalists always seem to concentrate minutiae of environmental change. I expect the eons of vulcanism, the vast tug-of-war between monsoon and drought, and the onslaught of glaciers that preceded human history would have brought them to the verge of apoplexy.