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Urge Congress to Permanently Protect the Arctic Refuge!
Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds. It is also the most important onshore denning habitat for America's vanishing polar bears.
But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
And now President Bush has called for drilling in the Arctic Refuge by 2010 in his new budget proposal!
We need to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge! Urge your Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) to permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
But this natural treasure is constantly under siege. Time and time again, the oil industry and their allies in Congress have sought to open this special place to harmful new drilling, threatening all of the wildlife that depend on it for survival.
And now President Bush has called for drilling in the Arctic Refuge by 2010 in his new budget proposal!
We need to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge! Urge your Representative to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) to permanently protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Please - support the Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R.39)-- isnt our natural wildlife more important? We are destroying what is not ours.
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We should be finding fuel alternatives...not destroying wildlife and our environment to drill for more oil. Please stop this.
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Stop the selfish destruction of wildlife!
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For once - do the right thing!
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We are all connected--what we do and think impacts everyone, including all beings in nature. For too long we have held a myopic view of the world, looking to fill our immediate needs. Now more than ever it is imperative that we hold a higher vision and make decisions based on what is in the highest good for all--and that includes ALL. May those in positions of power to make decisions open their hearts to this higher vision.
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Please stop messing with our wild life and stop drilling. We are destroying the planet and ecosystems and acting selfishly.Please save our Polar Bears!
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Palar Bears are under ever greater stress due to human caused global warming. We need to do everything possible to preserve their remaining habitat.
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Please stop drilling where we dont belong!
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Please stop messing with our wild life and stop drilling. There are other means of fuel that is god given and we should explore all other means that will not harm our wild life, atmosphere and mother earth in general.
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We have an obligation to protect the Arctic Refuge. Our business must be the global responsibility of protecting the environment, not the oil business.
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Which is worth more, a polar bear's life or filling up a SUV?
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I agree so much with the people below me. The artic is not for us to destroy, we have done enough damage around the world. Instead of looking for oil, we should look for new alternatives. Drillings will kill the animals that habitant the area and if you ask me , THATS MURDER. We need representatives that hear the people and make GOOD choices, and you guys are failing miserably.
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Money or saving a wild animals habitat?
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Rather than drilling for oil, isn't it finally time to ween ourselves off oil and find alternatives? We are destroying the planet and ecosystems and acting selfishly.
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We don't inherit this planet from our ancestors, we are borrowing if from future generations. Let's not forget that.
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This is not the first petition I have signed to protect the Artic Refuge from Big Oil. I fervently wish it could be the last. It seems that the current administration doesn't care about what the people want.We need leadership that represents us not oil interests.
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The oil that is pumped out of the field in Alaska, only benifit the oil companies. Almost none of this is ever shipped to the US markets, it is all sent to Japan and China. We need to protect what is left of a very fragile environment, not destroy it for corporate profits.
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Not only will inevitable oil spills affect the environment, but consider the additional impact of environmental warming and pollution in that area. Not only the activity of drilling, ship traffic, humans living there as well as coming in and out, lights and generators running at onset but the continuous additional activities once the drilling is complete. We need to protect this environment not only for the bears but for our future. Scientists are predicting the artic flows will be gone within the next 100 years due to global warming -- without the drilling! We need to try to save the environment, not continue to destroy it.
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We have to lessen our dependence on oil rather than spend money drilling why don't we put that money into alternative fuels and cars that run on alternative fuels. Save the Polar Bear Grounds
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Please save our Polar Bears, who are near extinction. Start more drilling in Texas, and other areas where wildlife will not be disturbed.
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