Originally posted by: starkiller
Politicians passed laws and regulations making it very difficult, if not impossible to build new refineries. Why? Environmentalists don't want them. Why don't we tap Anwar?? Environmentalists are scared for the Caribou...

A lot of that definitely happens, but this article also points out that the moral rightness of humanity (or, especially white humanity) using its resources has been eroded by the fact wer are expected to always feel guilty about the past.

In otherwords, because our parents, grandparents, great grandparnts may have been racists, this generation can't possibly have the moral authority to 'destroy' the planet any more than we can destroy radical Islam.

In other words, liberals say the modern white man has no legitimacy because white people used to have a superiority complex.