if the Bush Administration lists the polar bears as endangered species, it would imply that Washington would be seen as acknowledging that humans have helped contribute to global warming and that they are able to play some part in fixing it.This, in turn, probably would make the Administration to pass some stricter regulations on power plants and factories that emit fossil fuels which would help the environment and thus the polar bears as well. If this happens, it will be likely that the polar bear population survive their seemingly imminent extinction.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
The Needs of Polar Bears
After 16 months of delays, a federal judge told Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthome that his department has just two weeks to decide whether to present the polar bears as a threatened species. From a political point of view, this decision is very controversial. According to an AEI article,
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