Posted on 02/25/2008 5:30:47 PM PST by Kaslin
With the federal government's decision on whether to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act expected at any moment, it seems appropriate to step back and assess what the larger consequences of a listing would be for the American people.
Most folks are at least vaguely in favor of protecting the polar bear.
They're willing to sacrifice, through increased regulation and taxes, to bring about that goal. But the public's eagerness to chip in isn't without limit, and few people realize the far-reaching ramifications of a polar bear listing.
The principal basis advanced for protecting the polar bear is that its ice habitat is melting away due to increases in global temperatures.
The environmental groups that are advocating the polar bear's listing contend the temperature increases are in part a function of man-made changes to the environment — most important, the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Now, it's entirely possible that the Fish and Wildlife Service — the federal agency that will make the decision whether to protect the polar bear — will list the bear, but will not give the exact cause of the bear's loss of habitat.
Even if the service ducks the climate change issue, it's unquestionable the issue of global warming and man's role in it will be raised in follow-up litigation.
Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act lets private citizens sue anyone, including government agencies, for violating the act.
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Best use of a Polar Bear is a rug. I don’t drink Coke, either.
Enuf already!
Go steal a picnic basket or sumpin like your cousins do.
I wonder if the loopy enviros have ever told the polar bears that they are “endangered.” The polar bear population has continued to increase over the past 50 years.
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Polar bears are being killed by trophy hunting by American hunters. I saw a photo of a dead polar bear in the back of a truck. I think they should be protected. I did not like what I saw.
Does that mean at the stroke of midnight all the DUmmies come popping out of his arse?
Lazy ass polar bears.......LMAO.
Great post.
iirc, in the 50's there were <1000 left. NOW... there are what 20+ Thousand???
I always wondered how they got the volunteers to measure them...
“I always wondered how they got the volunteers to measure them...”
LMAO! Very Carefully...
A polar bears one interest is in getting protein. If you are up north that means you are potential protein.
If polar bears are endangered (They are not. Their populations are either stable or growing), why does Canada allow 500 a year to be harvested?
That hunter who paid to get the trophy helped other polar bears maintain healthy populations in their environment. He paid plenty to do it too.
I have about the same feelings about polar bears as I do cobra snakes.
The purpose of Government is to govern, tell you what you can’t do. The bigger the government, the more it tells you what you can’t do. Time to cull the government.
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Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Next time you see one, walk up and tell 'em so.
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