The administration has blocked a proposed industrial road needed to mine copper in the middle of the state, and has banned oil drilling on 13 million acres in the North Slope.
No I agree, it would be unreasonable to stop all industrial processes, but I do think we can forgo drilling in the arctic which is heating 4 times faster than the rest of the Earth, and already facing climate change impacts like the whole… having to relocate entire communities that have been inundated by rising sea levels, loss of protective landfast sea ice, erosion and flooding (Shishmaref, Chefornak, Newtok, Napakiak, Kotlik, Alakanuk, Kwigillingok, Golovin, Tuntutuliak, and Tununak). Because that’s a part of our current reality as well.
No I agree, it would be unreasonable to stop all industrial processes, but I do think we can forgo drilling in the arctic which is heating 4 times faster than the rest of the Earth, and already facing climate change impacts like the whole… having to relocate entire communities that have been inundated by rising sea levels, loss of protective landfast sea ice, erosion and flooding (Shishmaref, Chefornak, Newtok, Napakiak, Kotlik, Alakanuk, Kwigillingok, Golovin, Tuntutuliak, and Tununak). Because that’s a part of our current reality as well.
https://alaskapublic.org/2022/03/09/federal-government-to-fund-relocation-projects-for-6-alaska-communities/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2022/11/30/white-house-announces-50-million-to-relocate-2-alaska-communities/
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141372602/the-federal-government-helps-tribal-communities-in-alaska-move-to-higher-ground
https://apnews.com/article/religion-alaska-climate-and-environment-9384b22825a0df83dbaa03ab14ff18f1