Drilling in Alaska's wilderness

Drilling in Alaska wild life refuge

 Author Note:This is my opinion about drilling on ANWR wildlife refuge. I'm not trying to persuade you in anyway about this subject. 

 

            A toxic paradise, a land once home to many interesting creatures and plants. Now all that habits it are drilling fields that stretch for miles and miles. The jobs that are created are huge and the local economy is booming. At the price of many endanger animal’s lives. Now flip over to a refuge that hasn’t been affected by the craving for oil. An elk dashes across a vast pain of snow unaware that his life could have been dramatically altered. The local people still lobby for the US to drill on the land, but Congress refuses. The local economy spirals downward and the US is in desperate need for oil. Back to realty the US doesn’t allow drilling on the refuge but it’s believed there is bountiful fields of rich Oil. In my opinion I think we should drill on the refuge because it would bring in money and create jobs. Also it would bring oil that could be useful. Plus animals can be reborn and locations can be remade, oil and a sinking economy cannot.          

 Our consumption rate of oil is increasing at a sky high rate. We will be using a projected 30 million barrels of oil a day by the year 2025. With a Domestic supply in that year of about 9 million barrels, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that is not going to work. Now this oil supply will not cure the problem but the estimated 10 billion barrels will for sure ease the pain. On the other hand the blast for jobs would be huge. Think of it, some of the people that got laid off will be able to bring fresh food home for a family, for once and not have to worry about money.

All of this is not a happy story let’s be clear on that. This beautiful land would most likely be destroyed but if oil drilling were to be allowed to go in to plan only 1% of land would be affected. A measly 1% of the ANWR land. Not the state of Alaska just 1%. Doesn’t sound that bad now does it. To some though that little land is just to precious to give up. Like you favorite toy as a kid. Only if you toy was covered in beautiful mountain ranges, with crude oil and many people fighting for it.

The social effect that this would have would be huge and I’m not talking about a little post on Facebook, I’m talking about the world wide news. This would most likely both revive negative and positive criticism.  The most obvious thing they would be criticized about this is why would you wreck perfectly good untouched land, and the positive would be thank you for caring about get more oil and providing more jobs. This would also show that we don't have to depend on foreign oil all the time.

The beautiful land inside the ANWR is meant for animals. Yes, but we would only drill on that 1% of 

land that would not devastate the biome at all. Also nature can be rebuild, we can rebuild. We will run out of oil at some point and will have to drill on this land. If we started now we can rebuild the land. The animals will come back and things will go back to normal. Only this time we will be 10 million barrels of oil richer.

                             

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Underdog

Authors Note:This is a response to the book The Underdogs by Mike Lupica.




Underdog.  Definition, person or party that is expedited to fail or to lose. We all have been underdogs at some point in our life weather it be school or sports, or you been told that your for sure are going to fail. Then you go out and try prove them wrong. In the book The Underdogs that's what Will tries to do with his football team for a town that lost everything. Will lost almost everything to including his Mom. Proving that if you're from a town that's small or has a small team. You will be look down upon. In sports at least.        

When I played football my first year we were a small squad with a few good players. Size wise, we all where miniature the biggest player being 5'5. We were for sure the underdogs going in to every game and we lost ever single one. Most everyone gave up and stopped caring, but a couple of people my self included never gave in and we nearly won our last game only losing by 6 points. This relates to the story because no one care about the football team and they struggle to get 11 people just to be on the team. They got destroyed in their first game because know one cared.

 No one caring about something in general is bad but denying kids to play sports because of some odd or outlandish reason is just plan and flat out dumb. Like in the book Tackling Jim Crow by Alan Levy were black football players dealt with racism and criticism. This is related to the book I read because there were told that they were awful and couldn't. On a much smaller and less insensitive scale. Never the less though they were still the underdogs.

Underdog that title for some people it crushes them and makes them quit. For some people it drives them to rise above and do better. Mr. Lupica did great job of saying that in end saying "Maybe being an underdog isn't such a bad thing, well for me atleast" So no matter what if you are on a small team or for a small town you will always be under rated and an underdog, but it's your job to prove them wrong.