At 09:10 PM 5/4/01 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>> You're wrong on so many counts here, Doug, I hardly know where to
start......
>>
>> 1) *NOBODY* is arguing for oil exploration in the entire Arctic National
>> Wildlife Refuge. Indeed, I've seen one figure that suggests that the
>> entrie area slated for exploration would consist of @60 acres. (1 acre <~
>> 1 sq km) We are talking aBout a tiny slice of a huge reserve.
>>
>etc. etc.
>
>Leave it to you, John, to so completely misconstrue what I write.
Oh really?
Allow me to refresh your memory:
"That would make the reserve about one half of one percent of the total land
mass of the U.S. One tenth of one percent of North America. Three hundredths
of a percent of the worlds total land mass. In one of the most remote
locations on the globe. Is it really asking so much that we preserve such a
small fraction of the globe so that our children and theirs can witness
pristine wilderness?"
You opposed drilling on the ANWR because you wanted to preserve 0.5% of the
US landmass. My point, however, is that we are already preserving much
more than that- and development on a mere 60 acres would not substantially
affect our efforts to preserve pristine wilderness.
JDG
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to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
