Drilling in ANWR, logging forests, mining for resources, etc. have the purpose of investing money to create products and services for people to use. Why are billions of taxpayer dollars spent "looking for life on other planets"? Will they be made into fuel or energy? Can they be harvested for food? Can we build anything from them? No, the only reason is that scientists, and the humanist masses who idolize them, think that will somehow "kill God" and, by extension, any moralists who base their beliefs in God. That's why liberals love these kind of people.
If NASA or some private consortium were to say, "We're going to look for Martian microbes because we think they can easily be converted into fuel," there would be such a hue and cry that all of outer space would be placed off-limits.
The whole “green movement” is based in a rejection of God.
God put the resources here for us to use and commanded that we use them.