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On the Right on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:18:50 PM
The Interior Department ruled Wednesday that the polar bear will be
protected as a threatened species. Why special treatment for an animal
whose population has more than doubled over the last 50 years?
Because it's politically correct. The polar bear has become such a
beloved icon that even a pro-development Republican secretary of the
Interior can't muster the courage to say no to the forces of
environmentalism.
These beautiful creatures have become pawns in the environmentalists'
campaign to block oil and gas exploration and drilling in Alaska's
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and beyond.
Though bullied by the court, Kempthorne still had a choice. He just
made the wrong — and an unnecessary — one. The polar bear is already
under the shield of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act and its
population is at a historic high.
Oh, you thought its numbers were shrinking? Forget the maudlin media
wailing about global warming leading to the extinction of the polar
bear because man-made global warming will melt its habitat.
Its numbers are actually growing. There might be as many as 25,000,
and probably no fewer than 22,000, today while 50 years ago, there were
somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000.
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