Here’s just a tiny example of what’s likely to be a growing phenomenon — increased pressure to extract oil from much-loved, environmentally sensitive areas all over the world.
It’s not just vast wildernesses like ANWR that will be threatened as oil prices soar.
As this plan to drill in the UK shows, we can expect that pressure [...]
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Posted in economics, plants and animals, tagged oil, resources, woodland on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- the answer to climate change: drill for oil in Alaska!
Posted in climate change, energy, national security, political action, tagged oil, Victor Davis Hanson on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As environmental issues finally seem urgent to broad swathes of the US commentariat, that reality is spawning all sorts of creative arguments for what people wanted all along.
Take the example of drilling for oil in environmentally sensitive habitats in the USA. In a Tribune Media column today, the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson argues [...]
