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Still wondering what the guy was thinking, as he cut down the last tree
on Easter Island.

Most likely it was me me me.

Bill who thinks there is no other.

Taste from Salon.
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No bears for oil

Why hasn't the polar bear been granted federal protection? Maybe because
the Bush administration plans a last-minute handout of oil leases on its
habitat.

By Katharine Mieszkowski


Jan. 17, 2008 | By 2050, two-thirds of the world's polar bears will have
vanished, as a result of global warming melting their icy habitat,
according to scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey. There may no
longer be any polar bears at all living in Alaska, their only home in
the United States. Still, this stark prediction, revealed in September
2007, after a yearlong review of the impact of melting sea ice on the
Alaskan bears, hasn't inspired the Bush administration to list the bear
as even a threatened species, much less an endangered one, under the
Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, responsible for listing mammals as
threatened or endangered, has been one of the most politically
compromised scientific divisions in the Bush administration. It didn't
consider extending federal protections to polar bears until it was
petitioned, and subsequently sued, to do so by a coalition of
environmental groups back in 2005. Now it admits that polar bears are
"likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future," and explained
recent delays by citing the complexity of the decision: It has never
before had to designate a species as threatened because of global
warming.

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