ANWR has repeatedly been described as a “pristine” wilderness.
Years ago, I recall liberal after liberal using the obscure word “pristine” when arguing against drilling or exploration there.
Which goes to show, liberals parrot back what they are told to think about an issue. What are the odds that some many people would independently of each other, describe a place none of them will ever visit, in exactly the same way?
They all get their morning email blast with the talking points.
Remember "gravitas"?
You forgot “Unique”, which is usually uttered at in the same sentence. You’ll never hear them say something like “Oh - yeah, now I see what area you’re referring to - that area over there - hell, go right ahead - there’s nothing special at all about that land, plenty more where that came from!”
Unique. Pristine. Fragile. The original 1964 “Wilderness Act”, which is a bit different than legislation authorizing National Parks, speaks of areas “untrammled by man, where he is a visitor but does not remain.”
I’ve studied the “Environmental” crowd and it seems to be largely if not exclusively comprised of some very bad characters in the sense they engage in lawfare and legal chicanery to prevent any sort of resource extraction anywhere. Luddites with trust funds. Reasonable people long ago saw them for the nutcases they are. The Sierra Club was; at one time - very pro Nuclear Power. That’s a fact. Any organization or government entity that professes to be concerned about “global warming” or “carbon footprints” but looks the other way or actively encourages tens of millions of illegal aliens and foreign nationals invade the borders can be safely ignored as full of &$@t. (Same thing with anybody that claims to be involved in the orwell-esque “homeland security”. Wide open borders?? No way.)
SO DISGUSTED with all these bastards at every level who have been lying to the American people, so much for so long, they don’t know what’s what anymore. So in principle I don’t care a whit whether a wild area is preserved or not - Utah has some truly unique areas - but it’s not a museum either. Let’s let the sane people in Utah decide, not unelected wackadoodle bureacrats who don’t even live in the state, or crooked politicians engaging and in quid pro quo with foreign countries etc etc.
Buncha goddamn crooks. What else is new. End it. End it Now.