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> Saudi Arabia extracts "light" oil and it's a frickin' desert, so the environmental impact of that extraction is quite a bit lower all things considered. Wai
by a3n 7y ago
> Saudi Arabia extracts "light" oil and it's a frickin' desert, so the environmental impact of that extraction is quite a bit lower all things considered.
Wait, what? A desert is just as much an ecosystem as a rainforest or a city.
- crazygringo 7y agoAre you seriously claiming that, say, the sand of the Sahara (or the ice at the south pole) is as rich as, say, the Amazonian rainforest? Sure I guess technically anything is an ecosystem, but some clearly support far more life (and variety of life, and sometimes exclusive life) than others. They obviously have different ecological "value". Also pumping oil in the desert doesn't lead to the local residents being able to set their tap water on fire, you know, the way fracking can.
- Finnucane 7y agohttps://www.worldatlas.com/articles/life-in-the-arabian-desert-what-animals-live-here.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/life-in-the-arabian-dese...
- ghshephard 7y agoTaken to the extreme, we have the "environmentalists" in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" series.