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Thursday, September 11, 2003
. . . (they are poor now, and oil could make them millionaires). One of the Eskimos, Bert Akootchook, angrily told me that if environmentalists were so anxious about the Arctic, they should come here and clean up the petroleum that naturally seeps to the surface of the tundra.But the scenery must be preserved, says Kristof. After rapturously describing the wildlike he observed from his tent, Kristof writes, The reality is that oil would mean roads, lodgings, pipelines, security fences, guard stations and airstrips — and my children would never be able to experience the Arctic as I have.So there you have it: we must continue to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, for example, whose rulers in turn donate some of the proceeds to al Qaeda, who want to kill us. Why must that continue? Because Kristof’s children might want to see wild bears without an oil derrick way in the background. Spoiling the view is a left-wing anathema. Kristof’s entire case rests pretty much on nothing else. His closing words? Drilling for oil there, for merely the sake of getting oil, "would casually rob our descendants forever of the chance to savor this magical coastal plain." As for me, I go with Eskimo Bert Akootchook. His descendants will see a lot more of the magical plain than Kristof’s ever will.
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