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Focuses on problems related to the approval of the construction of a trans-Alaskan oil pipeline by U.S. Interior Secretary Rogers B. Morton. Reasons for the delay in the construction of the pipeline; Objections of environmentalists to the construction of the pipeline; Sources that are capable to supply crude oil to the U.S.; Significance of the Alaskan oil for the U.S.; Views that the environmentalists' objections to the Alaskan pipeline arise from fears that wildlife life-cycle and migration patterns will be disrupted; Opinion that this project has been planned in order to satisfy petroleum thirst of the U.S.

Comments on the political debate surrounding the energy bill which would open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling for oil and natural gas. Concern of environmentalists; Idea that sometimes lofty environmentalism is a cover for crude politics; Argument that some environmental policies are feel-good indulgences for an era of energy abundances; Mention of how Ben & Jerry's ice cream, which is preferred by environmentalists, is actually not a very environmentally conservative product.

Features the contributions of several Republican leaders to environmental protection in the U.S. Establishment of the U.S. Forest Service by former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt; Bills on the protection of the environment signed and encouraged into law by former U.S. President Richard Nixon; Contributions of Connecticut Representative Nancy Johnson to a bill that would designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness.