“When the drilling is over and the oil is gone, mother nature will reclaim the area so that even the sensitive eyes of John McCain will not be offended.”
Another aspect of the arrogance and self-importance of the environmental extremist is that they can’t grasp the reality that our (and their) time on earth is a mere blink of an eye compared to the age of earth. What we do or don’t do is of little importance to the existence of the earth. Mother Nature will take care of things as you say. A century of two from now, no one would know or care whether or not we drilled in ANWR.
There is need for being environmentally responsible, but these earth worshipers have no sense of reality.
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This is where you begin to touch on the epistemological solipsism of the enviro-weenie leftist. In some it is so profound as to be a mental illness (how many times have you shaken your head in complete and utter astonishment at leftist "logic").
Just as the enviro-weenie can't establish anything like a rational comparison between his life (or our lives) and the lifespan of the Earth, so can he neither understand that his polluted urban landscape is a tiny flyspeck on the face of the continental U.S. To the enviro-weenie, it's the Bronx or South Boston or LA from sea to shining sea, with small wilderness enclaves that must be protected against the raping and pillaging of big business and particularly by Republicans and George Bush.
These are the same monomaniacs who believe Valdez AK is symbolized by a dead fish (in fact it's one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world), and that polar bears are becoming marooned on icebergs.
Ask an enviro-weenie to take a cross-country flight and report back on the number of Wal-Mart parking lots they spotted from the air, versus farmland, forests, and open country. It will train them to exercise the powers of proportion.