At 10:06 AM 5/21/01 +0300 Charlie Bell wrote:
>John, where's it say "three"?
See my response to Doug.
>By the way, you are aware that the environments most susceptible to damage
>are deserts and arctic tundra, because organisms are so specialised and
>biodiversity is so low.
That was never an issue, however. The issue, however, are the two claims
made by the environmentalist side:
-The ANWR is "America's Serengeti."
-There is no other place in North America that protects as many differing
habitats in a single unit.
Obviously, the decision to drill in ANWR must be made on a cost-benefit
analysis. It is impossible to have an intelligent debate about this
decision, however, when the environmentalist side continually overstates
their case. That is why I have limited myself to debating the matter on
these narrow grounds.
JDG
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