Pebble Mine Information

[Al Agnew]

Every act of environmental protection is only a holding action at best, because as long as there are this many people in the world--and more all the time--and as long as we are addicted to the non-renewable materials that Kevin talked about, the pressures on the environment will only grow. There are things that COULD be done--switch a lot of stuff over to renewable and recyclable materials, get really serious about conservation, etc.--that would lessen the pressure, but as long as there are this many of us and everybody wants the "American" lifestyle, there simply aren't enough raw materials to go around without chasing after them everywhere they are found. Every time I think about this, I get more pessimistic. I think our only long range hope is to develop the techology to mine other planets.

But in the short range, we still oughta be able to protect places as spectacular as that area.