The polar bear has become the latest pawn in the environmentalists’ move to prevent exploration and drilling in ANWR. This underhanded maneuver gives environmentalists a bad name – and rightly so. What are our children learning about using scare tactics and buying into lies to achieve a personal agenda without any shame or accountability? Doesn’t this photo just rip your heart out? It’s supposed to.
Let’s look at the facts.
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The polar bear is already under the protection of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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This is the first time a thriving species has been put on the endangered list.
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The population of polar bears has almost tripled in the past 50 years to about 24,000 bears.
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The famous photo of the stranded polar bears drifting out to sea on melting ice was taken in August, when Arctic ice always melts. A witness said the bears were “not in danger at all” and “are still alive and having fun.”
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The polar bear has already survived two global warming eras that were as hot or hotter than the predicted coming climate change.
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Global warming and ice ages are part of normal earth cycles and have occurred and will continue to occur with or without human intervention.
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At worst, reducing the world’s polar bear population two-thirds by 2050 would only reduce them to their number of 50 years ago, not put them anywhere near extinction.
Why aren’t we calling environmentalists on the lie that polar bears need saving when our rising food and gas costs, our dependence on oil from people sworn to exterminate us and the starving of the world are real issues?
I don’t suppose any of these radical environmentalists are starving, losing their livelihood or have been forced to make life altering adjustments because of our dependence on foreign oil and the havoc it is creating.
Looking out for animals is a noble undertaking and we should all protect the defenseless but it becomes criminal when we sacrifice ourselves and our children for a bogus cause. Is it responsible to make critical decisions based on an invented endangerment of polar bears at the expense of human beings’ quality of life?
We’re seeing the tunnel vision of wealthy, connected environmentalists whose desires are satisfied at any cost and under the guise of a noble cause. It disgusts me. Only in a rich, privileged country like America could people have the option of being so unconnected with human need. Only a heartless group of people would take advantage of that option.
No wonder the world hates us, we must come off to them as such sanctimonious asses.
Wow! Would that I could have said it as well as have you. I have often cogitated upon the fact that Al Gore, aka “Chicken Little”, was not around to save the dinosaur. Based on the several expensive studies of our Bovine population one is tempted to question the theory that volcanic ash was the offending agent in the process of their demise. It may have been flatulence from some other Mesozoic reptile. Of course, if Al had been around then to do so, we wouldn’t have any oil to be concerned about.
I am constantly amazed at the arrogance of radical environmentalists as they presume to know and believe they alone should be the arbiters of that which lives, dies, or mutates while they profess to believe in Darwin’s evolution through the survival of the fittest. At my age (80+) one begins to realize that the more facts we gather; the less we know about everything.
It is the Liberal way: “Do it my way, it’s better and we’ll all soon live in Utopia. Oh, and we’ll bill you in advance.”
Isn’t this insane? I often wonder how all this radical environmentalism got so out of control. How did we let this happen…and now what are we going to do about it? I know one thing, as you said, we’ll end up paying for it..we already are.