Climate is #1 threat to polar bears
Photo: By Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press/AP
I can not believe anyone can look at this picture and not want to do whatever they can to help these animals. However, if the comments on USA Today are any indication, many of the uneducated have swallowed the Kool-Aid and feel that higher gas prices will be the major human "cost."
This is not only a selfish but short-sighted and erroneous response to the problem. No matter the ignorance of Governor Palin who decides that there is and then isn't global warming based on her current self-interest, there is the potential loss of this great animal, forever, in North America.
The storyline fed to many is that Exxon and every other gas and oil lease company in the US HAS to drill and explore and rape and pillage the land in order to keep fuel prices down. This is not true. Every consumer has a huge ability to make long-term decreases in what we use which lessens the power of the fictitious stories fed to the masses by the oil and gas industries.
It may be easier for some to play deaf, dumb and blind...dumb being the operative word if corrections are not made in the way we make use of the natural resources we have available. Time will soon be running out for more than polar bears if not.
