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Posted by: Brandon	Posted 791 Days Ago \| 565 Views
Petition to stop Arctic Drilling & protect Polar Bear habitat
Polar Bears have been getting a lot of attention recently due to the fact that for the first time in history, there could be a species placed on the Endangered Species list prior to the population actually dropping to a critical low. The reason is because the habitat of the Polar Bear is disappearing due to global warming. They rely on the Arctic ice to hunt for food. Now that the ice is melting, they have fewer places to find food and face extreme challenges to just to survive. Just recently, the Interior Department has opened up an area of the Polar Bear's habitat in Alaska for oil drilling. This is just one more obstacle for the continued survival of this magnificent species. Check out the Sierra Club's initiative to block this drilling here. Enough is enough! Continued oil exploration in a fragile climate is not the answer. I can only hope we learn that lesson before there is another catastrophic oil spill.

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RE: Petition to stop Arctic Drilling & protect Polar Bear habitat

Submitted by: Thirsty

Hello I'm glad I found other people speaking about this ill-conceived plot to generate profits and so-called energy security at the expense of the earth's climactic homeostatis which permits the current life-supporting ecologies to exist. You have my support... My only add-on is that as an international problem, a moratorium on Arctic drilling needs to be an international effort, and largely should be sold on the need to save humanity from certain misery, if not the extinction of thousands of species that we are intricately interdependent upon for our survival. Go on brave one, and thanks for putting this out there.