Anyone prepared to defend the admin's go ahead on Arctic drilling?

[brett_jv]

27. The fact that if all the oil dried up overnight that probably 4-5 BILLION people ...

Would be dead within a year or two ... doesn't seem to register to most people here on DU.

Unless you're living completely self-sufficient and off the grid, using seeds from your own previous crops, tilling your fields w/draft animals (that you also feed with your own crops), with your own dam providing you with hydro-power ... with no plastics, asphalt, purchased fertilizers, etc, used in your life ... then you're in some way dependent on oil. How many people live like that in the USA today? A few hundred, maybe? And there's absolutely NO WAY that 'everyone' ... could.

Look, I'm 100% firmly in favor of MOVING away from fossil fuels to the extent that it's possible. But getting completely off them, without a HUGE drop in the standard of living of the average person is not something that we're even remotely close to being able to do. So until such time as we ARE ... we're going to need to get the oil from somewhere.

But drilling in the Arctic is a TERRIBLE option. And isn't the fact that the whole reason we can even consider it is BECAUSE we've polluted the atmosphere with so much CO2 FROM burning fossil fuels ... enough reason to give everybody serious PAUSE about the wisdom of such a maneuver?

Cause it damn sure ought to be. The 'warning bells' should REALLY be going off at this point. But some people only see $$$ signs and that's all that matters to them ... Very, very sad to see.