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No Offshore Drilling in Polar Bear Habitat!
Target: Interior Secretary Dirk KempthorneSponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
It's no secret that polar bears are in trouble. Global warming and habitat loss are driving these majestic animals to the brink of extinction.
Yet even as the government's own scientists have acknowledged these threats, the Bush/Cheney Administration has just announced oil and gas exploration plans that would disturb essential polar bear habitat and fuel America's dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming.
Sign our petition to urge Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to delay the planned February 6th sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea until the impact on the area's polar bears can be adequately determined.
Yet even as the government's own scientists have acknowledged these threats, the Bush/Cheney Administration has just announced oil and gas exploration plans that would disturb essential polar bear habitat and fuel America's dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming.
Sign our petition to urge Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to delay the planned February 6th sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea until the impact on the area's polar bears can be adequately determined.
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We signed the “No Offshore Drilling in Polar Bear Habitat!” petition!
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The polar bear habitat is fragile enough already without other disturbances. Preserve the polar bear way of life and find better ways to make energy.
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Is this really necessary? Please focus on energy sources other than oil or nuclear. Solar, hydro and wind are appropriate focuses.
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Please protect the environment. Please. These things can't be undone. There must be another way. Please reconsider the tremendous impacts drilling will have on the increasingly fragile arctic ecosystem. Please. There must be another way. Thank you.
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It is difficult to believe offshore drilling leases are for sale where our precious, endangered polar bears live. Where are your ethics? Please stop this process now. We have lost many polar bears to global warming, and now we greedy humans are planning to create an oil mess that will eventually or sooner kill our endangered bears. Stop this now.What the hell are you thinking!!!!!
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america keeps saying that this is not what we want. can we listen to america and try to find alternatives to oil. enough already!
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Drilling is not the answer. Let's focus on renewable and alternate energy sources... we need to REDUCE our oil dependency - and keeping a temporary supply so people can drive Hummers is the worst decision you could make!
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Persistent pollutants have worked their way into the Arctic ecosystem and are threatening the bears. Long-lasting PCBs flowing from southern climates into Arctic rivers are transported upward through the food chain in ever-higher concentrations. And now we want to sell their habitats? We forget that we arent the only species living here...we share it with many other animals and plants....slowly, with our electricity, nuclear power and machines we are killing our planet.
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This country has got to admit its oil addiction, the consequences of which are ruining the planet. The war in Iraq is about oil; enough blood for oil. Offshore drilling is another example.-Industrial greed and major multinational ¨bottom line¨interests are killing off the both plant and animal life. Species are disappearing daily with pollution and ecological disaster of once pristine lands. ENOUGH.
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plaese for once think beyond material gain and do what is right.they earth does not belong to us and we should share it equally with every other creature.
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yeah great, chalk another atrocity up to Stevens, this one's 'the bridge to nowhere' for the polar bears,
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Before we know it unless people start taking a stand we will no longer be here either.
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Such offshore drilling would disturb essential polar bear habitat and fuel America's dependence on fossil fuels that cause global warming.
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Do the right thing. No drilling in habitat of endangered polar bears.
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I'll stop driving my gas eating car if you let the bears live.
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The polar bears need all the habitat they can get, considering that we are melting the Arctic right out from under their feet!
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they are already on the brink, let's not push them over
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