Idiot.

How many of the influencers and financial backers of the campaigns to stop exploratory drilling and eventually production, are connected to The Bahamas? Do they have conflicts of interest? Are they attempting to delay the drill or financially hurt BPC and its shareholders for personal gain?
What does this have to do with anything?
My family opposes female genital mutilation in Africa. They don't live there. Should they shut up?
Do you not have a conflict of interest, investing in a technology that most educated people can now see is destroying life on our earth?
Does it occur to you that someone might speak their mind for reasons other than "financial gain" I see what motivated you. However, as an outspoken opponent of drilling for oil and other destructive enterprises humanity is engaged in, what would be my financial interest in devoting a good bit of time in staying current and voicing my opinion? Yours is money, mine is not. So, who should the people listen to?
I do get tired of having to endlessly, it seems, counter these adolescent arguments for drilling for oil.
\If you have the dream of becoming rich, or richer, fine. Say so. But, do not try and use illogical arguments to convince others to sacrifice their lives, their homes, their children's future because of your selfish agenda. We've heard it all before. Your letter is empty.
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This is the view from money, and money alone.
I heard nothing of the overwhelming science on the climate crisis. When we are looking at the massive changes occurring and still see the need to write a letter protecting our ability to gamble on our children's future, do we really not see the moral disconnect?
Nothing from the world's most eminent scientists on why oil needs to stay in the ground.
I heard nothing about the existential threat of near term sea level rise.
Nothing about the threats to our way of life, food sources, tourism.
The arguments for drilling for oil today are like the arguments used not so long ago for slavery.
Yeah, it's probably wrong, but look at all the good it has done. Look at the USA. How could one imagine a prosperous country like that without a few hundred years, most of its history, of people donating their lives to the betterment of white human kind.
The BPC shareholder writes, "My family and I have been to The Bahamas and witnessed its lovely people. A people with the dire misfortune of having to deal with a terrible hurricane and pandemic. Do not let a few thousand people, some with no connection whatsoever to your beautiful islands, trick you."
Sir, or madam, thank you for "witnessing" our lovely people. The vast majority of people who object to this drilling are Bahamian and some of us read extensively. The only ones trying to "trick" us are those who would seek to make money while doing nothing but "witnessing" the problems we are facing as a nation, as a world.
To state, "To debate safety and the environment after an oil discovery is welcome. And if no oil is found, somewhat irrelevant." This one of the more ridiculous statements I've ever read." When do you worry about your family's safety? When do you buy health insurance? After a major heart attack? Sorry, quit trying to make illogical arguments sound reasonable.

Leadership must be recognized to prevail.
Some who have true leadership, were nailed to the cross, as they usually are.
I do like the adage, without vision the people perish.
But, aren't there other ways the people perish?
We have a global citizenry who seem addicted to gadgets, who seem to no longer read.
People get their news and information from social media.
Many, no most, people are divorced from the truth. Instead, relying on superstition and belief as the end all. Leaders do not spring up out of nowhere. They are produced by the society and people who raised them. True leaders do not last long in today's world.
They are roundly ridiculed by us. They are ignored by our media. They are killed for subversion and radicalization. They NEVER make into politics.
The US and The Bahamas are not unique.
We have destroyed the ground from which leaders can be grown.
Do we truly need leaders to act like mature adults? Look around. Read the papers. Watch the news if you must. The people in the US and The Bahamas appear to give not a flying fluck about anything but their own mouths, genitals and pocketbooks. And, just who would expect a leader worth their salt to come lead us?
I usually agree with Mr. Stachhan, but after seeing Churchhiil, Bush and Obama being called "leaders".......................an insult to Nelson Mandela. They do not belong in the same category. After all, Ghengis Khan, Hitler and Stalin were all effective "leaders" too. Weren't they? And, people still perished, didn't they?

Yes gogo,
Wonderful lack of logic. As for me, yes, that is exactly what I am waiting for. A big payout from BPC to keep my mouth shut. Surely you shills for BPC can do better. Missed the news for the last few years?

Yes. Exactly right.

Yes, it is a bit beyond unbelievable.

They are fooling nobody Voltair. Thanks for calling them out. It has been obvious from the beginning. We must fight their foolishness with facts. Neither of whom seem to have a grasp of.

Just type in "sea level rise" into your search engine. What planet are you living on Pillow?
"Fossil fuels are the only economical and environmental choice"? Geez, are you that ignorant of both economics and environmental basics?
Global warming is real.
The oil companies have known what fossil fuels are doing to our climate for 45 years now, according to Exxon's own scientists. Yet you, Mr. or Mrs. Pillow, as an obvious shill for BPC, propose not to know this. Yet, you are going to suggest to these readers you have some wisdom, some knowledge? Sorry bud, you are fooling nobody, though you are using oil industry prescribed tactics such as sowing disinformation, trying to create confusion, denying the facts. Go away.

Safely? Do you have Bahamian children? Do you have more than a short term financial interest in The Bahamas?