This last week a man in a polar bear suit was arrested in front of the US Department of the Interior. He was protesting the reluctance of the government to list polar bears on the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. "The U.S. Geological Survey released a report this past September predicting that if current warming projections continue, two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will likely be extinct by 2050, including all of the polar bears in Alaska." - Greenpeace Post
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Bulletin from US Fish and Wildlife Service, January 7, 2008
10.2.08
POLAR BEAR ARRESTED
Posted by P.J.S. at 10:57
Labels: catastrophe, the arctic
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