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Both of the Bush Presidents pushed for oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge? Is this a good idea? Discuss the role of parks in society and our declining supplies of oil in the world. 200 words minimum.
Both of the Bush Presidents pushed for oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Yes, it is good idea bcause they donot allow to drill the whole widlife refuge instead a portion of it, which could help them by getting oil for the country and also in his statement he mention with the millions being earned from it will be used in royalties, bidding higher for wildlife conservation and also for buying the heat for the poor , either in the form of food, home shelter, clothes, etc. but further when they ask to explore more then it will leave ANWR to great threat.
Above this we cannot forget the cost what the wildlife refuge is going to pay as they play a vital role mainly in safeguarding the habitat of specific species and conserving the biodiversity.
They plays vital role in :
On the other hand there is urgent need to look at the availability of oil supplies:
according to stats data, the world had 1.7297 trillion barrels of crude oil remaining at the end of 2018
where as demand per day is 99.3 million barrels in 2018 which is increasing every year.
which is making our supplies to decrease to meet the actual demand of oil.
according to the HUBBERT PEAK THEORY oil production is bell shape curve and after a peak it starting depleting .