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future617RT · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

List the major land use types of the African region:

Question 2

There is an ongoing dispute among Congress, the oil industry, environmentalists, and indigenous peoples about whether the oil reserves of northeastern Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) should be exploited. What are the arguments for and against developing this region?

pocatato · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 13, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Nomadic herding
Mixed subsistence
Grazing and stock rearing
Plantation
Specialized horticulture
Mixed farming
Shifting cultivation
Mediterranean farming
Little agriculture activity

Answer to Question 2

On the one side are the oil interests, Alaskan politicians, and almost all Republicans in Congress, who have argued that the United States must develop these reserves to give the country more independence from Middle Eastern and other imported oil. On the other side is a coalition of environmentalists, many Native Americans, and congressional Democrats who argue that oil production in ANWR will do irreparable damage to the coastal plain's unique environment and the indigenous people who depend on it.
The main Native American group,the Gwich'in, insists that oil drilling and related activity in ANWR will disrupt caribou calving, decimate the herd, and thus endanger the Gwich'in way of life. The indigenous perspective on ANWR is not united, however; an Inuit group called the Inupiat supports oil production there, especially because of the jobs it would bring them.
Environmentalists argue that habitats and native cultures would be despoiled to provide just six months of US oil needs, whereas the oil industry says that 20 years of critical US supply is in ANWR. The amount of oil in ANWR is uncertain.