KEITH: It would still be beautiful.

SARMIENTO: It would be a different place, but it would still be nature.

CLAUSSEN: How do you know that it’s going to be beautiful? Once you keep adding all this carbon, you lose control. And the harder it is to move it back if you don’t like it or if things don’t go the way you expected they would.

SARMIENTO: Is that why we’re against this? Because we don’t want to gamble? Because we lose control?


CLAUSSEN: I think some people may feel that way.

Courtesy of Jorge Sarmiento

 

a view of the future 

The group stops for its first look at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system, which runs 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska’s North Slope, to the port of Valdez, on Prince William Sound.