November 29, 2017
Open Letter to Members of the United States Congress:
In the next few weeks, the US Congress will decide whether or not to mandate oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of the 2018 federal budget bill. The Arctic Refuge may seem far away to many, but its ecosystems sustain a diverse array of species that matter to Americans and to people around the world. Opening this refuge to fossil fuel development would ignore the will of the American people, who have for decades urged their elected officials to protect this irreplaceable ecological treasure. It would also violate human rights and jeopardize the food security of the indigenous Gwich’in people of the US and Canada. We are scholars from a wide range of fields—including the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences, the arts, and other areas—united in our belief that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would be a grave mistake. We call upon Congress to remove this reckless provision from the budget.
There is no justification for using the budget process to push through oil development in the Arctic Refuge. Drilling proponents claim lease sales will generate 1 billion dollars in revenue over the next decade to help defray the 1.5 trillion dollars of proposed tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Even if the anticipated revenue figure turned out to be correct (many estimates predict a far lower amount), it still represents an incredibly minute fraction of the tax-cut proposal. This abuse of the budget process would sacrifice one of the nation’s most ecologically and culturally significant places for a paltry sum of federal revenue.
As the ecological heart of the Arctic Refuge, the coastal plain provides critical calving and nursing habitat for the Porcupine caribou herd. Almost 200,000 caribou embark every year on the longest land migration of any animal on earth, journeying from the taiga and boreal forest ecosystems of northeast Alaska and the adjacent northwest Canada to the coastal plain, where they calve and nurse their young. Caribou biologists have repeatedly warned that oil development would have catastrophic effects on the herd. In addition to nurturing caribou, the coastal plain provides nesting and feeding habitat for millions of migratory birds. Nearly two hundred different species travel from all fifty states and six continents to breed and find nourishment in the Arctic Refuge. The coastal plain also offers the most important on-shore denning habitat in the US Arctic for polar bears, now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. As we are in the midst of what scientists call the earth’s sixth mass extinction, the vast nursery of the coastal plain needs protection now more than ever.
For Gwich’in communities on both sides of the US-Canada border, the prospect of drilling represents an existential threat to their cultural survival. The Gwich’in have relied upon the Porcupine caribou herd for nutritional, cultural, and spiritual sustenance for millennia. To them, the coastal plain is “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
Drilling in the Arctic is risky—the inevitable and chronic spills of oil and other toxic substances onto the fragile tundra would scar this land and disrupt its wildlife. The pollution caused by the sprawling infrastructure of oil development would threaten wildlife populations and harm indigenous communities that rely on the biotic life. Moreover, as the effects of climate change become more apparent, and as the global community continues to move away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy, why would we now destroy the crown jewel of our National Wildlife Refuge System?
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge must not be auctioned off to Big Oil. Its natural values far exceed any oil that may lie beneath the coastal plain. As scholars from across the United States and Canada, we ask that you keep this cherished place and vibrant ecosystem protected for generations to come.
Sincerely,
Subhankar Banerjee, Lannan Chair and Professor of Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico
Finis Dunaway, Professor of History, Trent University
Princess Lucaj (Gwich’in), M.Ed. Candidate in Teaching and Learning, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak (Iñupiaq), Honorary Doctorate of Humanities (Oberlin College), Nuiqsut, Alaska
Maria Williams, Associate Professor, Alaska Native Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage
Rick Steiner, Professor, University of Alaska (retired)
Terry Tempest Williams, Writer-in-Residence, Harvard Divinity School
Robert Newman, President, National Humanities Center
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University
Joseph Cook, Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico
Scott Tremaine, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Paul Sutter, Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Michael Hecht, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University.
Charleen Fisher (Gwich’in, Koyukon, and Dena’ina Athabascan), Scholar in the Cross Cultural Department, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Carrie Stevens, Assistant Professor of Tribal Management, College of Rural and Community Development, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Hishinlai’ Peter (Gwich’in), Instructor of Gwich’in, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Elaine Alexie (Gwich’in), MA, Northern Community Engagement Officer, University of Alberta, Canada
Christoph Irmscher, Provost Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington
Karl Jacoby, Professor of History, Columbia University
Anne McClintock, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Joni Adamson, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University
Lucy Lippard, Art Historian, New Mexico
Steven Stoll, Professor of History, Fordham University
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Elizabeth Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University, New York City
Terrence Gosliner, Senior Curator, California Academy of Sciences
Ross MacPhee, Curator in Vertebrate Zoology/Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
Arif Kahn, Director, University of New Mexico Art Museum
Elsa Menendez, Performing Arts Director, National Hispanic Cultural Center
Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, University of Kansas
Mark Klett, Regents’ Professor of Art, Distinguished Sustainability Scholar, Arizona State University
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Lisa Moorem, Archibald A. Hill Professor of American and English Literature, University of Texas Austin
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Nancy Jacobs, Professor, Department of History, Brown University
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Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society Program; photographic and environmental historian; Wesleyan University
Shirley Roburn, Visiting Scholar in Art History, McGill University
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Alexandra Lakind, PhD student in Environment & Resources, University of Minnesota
Janet Pritchard, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut
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Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College
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Carolyn Kay, Professor, History Department, Trent University
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Aaron Frith, Post-doctoral Researcher, Philosophy of Water Project, University of North Texas
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Ellen Babcock, Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of New Mexico
Nicole Seymour, Assistant Professor of English, California State University at Fullerton
William Goldsmith, Professor emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Elizabeth Nevada, Adjunct faculty – University of New Mexico Dance Program
Mark Stoll, Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Elizabeth Cullingford, Professor and Chair of English, University of Texas at Austin
Julianne Warren, Ecosphere Studies, Center for Humans and Nature
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Kathleen Segerson, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut
Catriona Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies, York University
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Stephen Bocking, Professor of environmental policy and history, Trent University
Teal Arcadi, PhD Candidate, US History, Princeton University
Merissa Daborn, PhD student, University of Alberta
Julia Grummitt, Ph.D Candidate, History Department, Princeton University
Kevin Siena, Assoc. Professor of History, Trent University
Grace Hale, Commonwealth Chair of American Studies and History, University of Virginia
Michael Sherwin, Associate Professor of Art, West Virginia University
Anne Coleman, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Parker Krieg, Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Humanities Program, University of Helsinki
Jeffrey Stine, Environmental Historian
Traci Quinn, Curator of Education and Adjunct Lecturer, University of New Mexico
Marianne Moore, Frost Professor Emerita in Environmental Science & Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
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Edmond Mathez, Emeritus Curator and Professor of Geology, American Museum of Natural History
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T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz
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Hollis Moore, MFA Candidate, University of New Mexico
Andrew Wilson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College
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Reina Tong, Graduate Assistant, Entomology, University of Florida
Mark Ward, Research Scientist, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Biology, University of New Mexico
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Lisa Bloom, Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bains Center, University of California, Berkeley
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Philip Sakimoto, First Year of Studies Program and Sustainability Minor, University of Notre Dame
Eden Radfarr, MFA student and Instructor of Record in Experimental Art & Technology, University of New Mexico
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Raechel Lutz, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Christopher Wells, Professor of Environmental Studies, Macalester College
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Robert Nessler, Nature Photographer, North America
Erik Loomis, Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
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Allison Carruth, Professor of English & Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), UCLA
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Scott Collins, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
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