The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one of the Earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19 million-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolves and wolverines. Millions of birds from around the world migrate to or through the region each year, and it serves as the calving grounds for the porcupine caribou.
Donald Trump has called the refuge the US’s “biggest oil farm.”
The first Trump administration opened 1.5 million acres of the refuge’s coastal plain to the oil and gas industry, and under Trump’s watch, the US government held its first-ever oil and gas lease sale there.
The president-elect has promised to revive his crusade to “drill baby drill” on the refuge as soon as he returns to the White House in January, falsely claiming it holds more oil than Saudi Arabia. Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for Trump’s second term, calls for an immediate expansion of oil and gas drilling in Alaska, including in the ANWR, noting that the state “is a special case and deserves immediate action.”
Hey, it’s not like he’ll be around to watch the world burn. And it’s not like he cares about his grandchildren. I bet he doesn’t even know most of their names.
It might even be optimistic to say he knows at least one.
Shame that we can’t just one piece of earth alone and pristine.
😔
There’s still Antarctica under all that ice? For now…
Of course the Chinese have their eye on that.
Fuck this asshole.
Ths US is currently producing more oil than any country ever. But of course Donald don’t know that because he’s a fucking moron. But he’ll take the credit for it when somebody finally tells him.
