President Trump
wants to plunder the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for its oil to
provide global oil corporations more oil than they need already.
Trump's analysts have given him ANWRs value as 1.6 billion dollars
over a decade, yet the environmental costs are probably greater. And
the United States already has more oil than it needs due to fracking,
fracking has already started in Alaska and existing fields may be
regenerated, and eventually the public will be left holding the bag
with the costs of cleaning up after thousands of weather beaten dried
up wellheads, pipeline, melted permafrost from global warming, costs
of saving endangered species, costs of leaking oil wells into the
Arctic ocean and rivers never before polluted by mankind, underground
water purity violated with fracking fluids etc.
The President
really is unlikely to get a second term if someone other than satan
doesn't run against him, as he loses independent yet ecospherically
informed voters. The high Arctic needs to be protected, not
plundered. He may want to have Johnny Depp in full pirate gear serve
as Ambassador to ANWR persuade people of the value of extracting
the oil.
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