Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Reasons  to agree: We should treat the earth as a Garden not an un-touchable wildlife preserve. All the oil in Alaska will someday burn. We can either burn it in our cars, or it will burn when the Sun engulfs the inner planets of our solar system, as it becomes a red-giant, before it burns out. Nothing we do to be nice to the planet matters in the long run. The sun will consume the Earth and everything on it. Sure. We should recycle, buy Prius cars, build green buildings, smart grids, and stop pollution. We need to save the Brazilian rain forest, and stop pollution. But there is absolutely nothing worth saving in ANWR, and nothing bad that could happen from extracting it's oil. It is a big frozen tundra, with miserable caribou that would lean against the pipeline for warmth in the depth of winter.

Reasons  to agree: Romney has said,  "Governor  Mark Sanford  is right. Unfortunately, some in the  Republican  Party are embracing the radical  environment al ideas of the  liberal  left. As governor, I found that thoughtful environmentalism need not be anti-growth and anti- jobs . But Kyoto-style sweeping mandates, imposed unilaterally in the  United States , would kill  jobs , depress growth and shift manufacturing to the dirtiest developing nations." Its called global warming, but cap and trade only punishes the US, if China and India don't join. We should not put our businesses on an un-even playing field unless other countries go along. Cap in trade does not work very well in Europe. It would be better to directly invest in clean technology, instead of punishing old technology. We should first do a cost benefit analysis of global warming, before we do anything harsh. Lets say we spend 5 trillion dollars every 10 years fighting global warming, but we only stop the pl...