A Polar-izing Issue
Thursday, May 15, 2008
The polar bear is now listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to projections of melting sea ice at the pole. Is this a sign of a changing government position on global climate change? Andrew Wetzler, Director of the Endangered Species Project at the National Resources Defense Council, explains the significance.
Comments [10]
Wait you forgot to Blame Bush for the UN's unwillingness to intervene in Burma.
MEOW MEOW
@michael - well you must live in the Reality Based Community(tm). I was kidnapped by neocons and rendered to a black site in Poland back in '02. What did I miss?
Sorry Steve everyone predicted all of the above.
Where have you been?
It seems more and more that every move the current administration makes is to advance their own oil-centric interests. This whole polar bear thing is their (thankfully, hopefully) short-termed attempts to allow arctic drilling.
Can't Coca Cola do something to save an important mascot? C'mon Coke. Get involved.
Nobody could have predicted that:
a) terrorists would fly planes into the World Trade Center;
b) there would be sectarian violence in Iraq;
c) no WMD would be found;
d) the Bush administration would do nothing about the polar bear or global warming.
Nobody.
do Polar bears pay taxes. or shop or donate to the 2 political parties ?
let them eat cake!
Bush is a day late and a dollar short.
A meaningless gesture coming from someone who cares nothing for the environment unless one of his friends' companies can make windfall profits.
Protect those cute and cuddily polar bears!!
I wish I could adopt one.
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