The best reason to stay out of the ANWR is for the caribou breeding grounds. However, if we burn all the other available oil, we may destroy their habitat anyway. A friend of mine has been watching temperatures on Baffin Is, and they are about the same as here, where it has barely felt like winter. The eskimos say that there is so much meltwater around that dead seals sink instead of floating.
There is a very interesting book about resistance to reason, etc, at
Index of /jeanaltemeyer/drbob You can hack the URL down a bit to select shorter download sections.