Ravenwood - 02/18/05 06:30 AM
Global Warming stories have kicked into high gear lately. The AP reports that an environmentalist wacko group is hoping to have polar bears put on the endangered species list, to protect them from global warming.
The Arctic sea ice habitat polar bears use for feeding, mating and maternity denning is breaking up earlier each spring and forming later in the autumn, said Kassie Siegel, lead author of the petition submitted Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity.Siegel also says that if polar bears are to survive, future CO2 emissions in the United States must be cut to a "small fraction" of what they are now.
According to the mission statement on their website, the Center believes that "Beyond their extraordinary intrinsic value, animals and plants, in their distinctness and variety, offer irreplaceable emotional and physical benefits to our lives and play an integral part in culture. Their loss, which parallels the loss of diversity within and among human civilizations, impoverishes us beyond repair."
If it weren't already taken, the CBD should change their initials to CBS.
Category: Global Warming
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I don't know about anyone else, but polar bears offer no "irreplaceable emotional and physical benefits" to me.
Even if this crap is true, which it likely isn't, they sure have little respect for animals' abilities to adapt to changing situations. They basically just assume that since they are completely inflexible in body and mind, all other living creatures must be as well.
This reminds me of a story from a while back where I believe some environmentalists were trying to block some sort of construction, claiming that it would destroy the only known habitat of an extremely sensitive bird.
In the end, the construction went ahead and the birds were later seen living quite comfortably on a Home Depot sign (or something like that). Suburban life didn't seem to affect them in the least, and the only critters bent out-of-shape about the issue were the environmentalists.
Posted by: roger at February 18, 2005 7:36 AMThat was the Spotted Owl, and I'm not sure, but I think the sign was for K-Mart.
The greatest irony being that K-Mart appears to be more endangered than the Spotted Owl.
Posted by: Ravenwood at February 18, 2005 7:51 AMEnvironmentalists.
Posted by: Steve Scudder at February 18, 2005 10:11 AMDude;
I f'ing love polar bears. They look all cute and cuddly, so my wife likes them, and I know that they could dismember and devour any idiot enviro-nut that got too close. That is a sweet twofer.
Posted by: Nick Bourbaki at February 18, 2005 4:10 PMNick, that suggests how to save the polar bears. Just keep sending them nice plump environmentalists to snack on, and loss of seal hunting grounds (or whatever it is the greenies are crying about) won't faze them a bit. It's not like a 1,000 pound bear can't find a new place to live. (I'm sure you've already heard that joke, although usually it's about a 500 lb gorilla.)
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