A Wilderness at Risk

Paper Summary:

The paper examines the issue of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from an environmental standpoint and discusses the harm greenhouse gases cause. The paper discusses how drilling would cause irreparable damage to animals and the wilderness, especially considering the relatively small amount of oil that is available in the area. The paper looks at the arguments of proponents of drilling but strongly disagrees with their view. The paper maintains that the country should be aggressively developing alternative fuels that will be cleaner and more economic.

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"Proponents of drilling in the area note the 1002 area, where drilling would occur, is just a small area of the entire Refuge, and that wildlife in the area will not be harmed by drilling in so small an area. Americans now know how dangerous greenhouse gases from fossil fuels can be, and alternative energy sources are what the country should be investigating now, rather than more dependence on national (or foreign) oil. Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a stopgap measure at best, and ruining one of America's last pristine wilderness areas is not worth the cost of a few barrels of oil."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cherry, Sheila R. "GOP Senator Drilling for Support: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Hopes to Use a Budget Resolution to Open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Exploration and Thus Increase Domestic Production." Insight on the News 1 Apr. 2003: 34+.
• Herndon, Mark. "The Last Frontier: The Last True Wilderness Is Increasingly at Risk in the Current Political Climate, with Calls for Less Dependency on Foreign Oil Focusing Attention on the Alaskan Preserves." Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 16.4 (2002): 72+.
• Hickel, Walter J. "ANWR Oil: An Alternative to War over Oil." The American Enterprise June 2002: 54+.
• Stanke, Samuel. "Like Wilderness, but Need Oil? Securing America's Future Energy Act Puts Little between Accident-Prone Oil Companies and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." Environmental Law 32.4 (2002): 905+.

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