Not the first time!

This is not the first time that the environment has been sacrificed for wealth. Think about the rain forest for a second... The rain forest has been destroyed due to logging, farming, colonization, and more! We all know that this is now a HUGE problem and now we are trying to fix it. I know that everyone has seen ads and commercials about saving the rain forest right? Why would we want to cause the same problem in ANWR? Lets just save ourselves the trouble of trying to go back and fix our mistakes and just not even do it in the first place!