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Alaska Mulls Extra Oil Drilling to Cope With Climate Change
Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change [bbc.com], the Governor of Alaska has told the BBC.
The state is suffering significant climate impacts from rising seas forcing the relocation of remote villages.
Governor Bill Walker says that coping with these changes is hugely expensive.
He wants to "urgently" drill in the protected lands of the Arctic National Wilderness Refuge to fund them.
Alaska has been severely hit by the dramatic drop in the price of oil over the past two years.
In Alaska politicians are as with men: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
