President Biden is expected to restore protections to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Northeast Canyons, and Seamonts, all which have served under federal designations that provide such protections.
I wonder if in today's age, we can justify mineral extraction from such places. Do we need fossil coal and fossil oil in today's age? Or have fossil fuels become about as outdated as the fossils, themselves?
Plus, the extraction often comes on land sacred to the Native Americans. We took the whole of America away from the native Americans, leaving many of them cornered off on reservations. What once was theirs, is ours -- taken from them. Do we not at least owe them the respect that comes with being amenable to their request to not violate the lands?
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