Subliminable
I think the way to handle it would have been to say it is fair to describe ANWR as a "pristine wilderness" but it is equally accurate to descibe it as "a frozen wasteland 9 months of the year and infested with blood-sucking insects the rest".
Earth worship is definitely a religion. Anyone I have met that wants to "save the earth" has no concept of what will happen to earth when our Lord returns. Read Revelation some time, "the elements will melt with fervent heat", is one of the descriptions. In the end it will be utterly destroyed by its creator and a new heaven and earth will be made to last for eternity.
I disagree. Rationally, it's pretty easy to find the reason (singular) that the Senate rejected drilling in ANWR: the left wing wants to get back in control. They don't care about the environment. Their goal is to destroy President Bush as they did his father.
They have no issues upon which to stand, so they've latched onto the left wing's most popular fiction: the Republicans love to destroy the environment.