{"id":11,"date":"2005-09-13T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/arctic-folly\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T17:10:13","slug":"arctic-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/arctic-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arctic Folly<\/a> By Jimmy Carter<\/p>\n

Congress is about to make one <\/p>\n

of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way <\/p>\n

and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade <\/p>\n

Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly. <\/strong>…<\/p>\n

[T]he White House and Big Oil are <\/p>\n

pressuring Congress to allow drilling rigs to rip into the ecological heart of America’s preeminent wildlife sanctuary. We must not <\/p>\n

confuse this with Prudhoe Bay, which lies west of the Arctic refuge and is already an industrial landscape resembling Houston more than <\/p>\n

Yellowstone. …<\/p>\n

We cannot drill our way to energy security or lower gasoline prices as long as our nation sits on just 3 percent <\/p>\n

of world oil reserves yet accounts for 25 percent of all oil consumption. An obvious answer is to increase the fuel efficiency of motor <\/p>\n

vehicles, at least to the level we set more than a quarter-century ago. …<\/p>\n

[C]onservation-minded Americans must ask our elected <\/p>\n

representatives to vote down any final budget reconciliation bill that would allow the sacrifice of our Arctic sanctuary.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to speak up for the ecological integrity of this unsurpassed 18-million-acre wilderness.<\/strong> Many <\/p>\n

Americans will be in Washington on Sept. 20 for the Arctic Refuge Action Day rally on the Mall and to contact congressional <\/p>\n

representatives personally.<\/p>\n

If we are not wise enough to protect the Arctic refuge, future generations will condemn <\/p>\n

us<\/strong> for needlessly sacrificing the wilderness of their world to feed our profligate, short-term and shortsighted energy habit. <\/p>\n

The pathway to a better, more sustainable energy future does not wind through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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