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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.
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Protect those cute and cuddily polar bears!!
I wish I could adopt one.
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.
do Polar bears pay taxes. or shop or donate to the 2 political parties ?
let them eat cake!
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.
Can't Coca Cola do something to save an important mascot? C'mon Coke. Get involved.
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.
Sorry Steve everyone predicted all of the above.
Where have you been?
@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?
MEOW MEOW
Wait you forgot to Blame Bush for the UN's unwillingness to intervene in Burma.
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