ORIGINAL: as moeggs
I don't think listing the polar bear as endangered is such a bad thing. Think about it.....If they are, George "the oil man" Bush can't try to drill destroying habitat like he has done in the west. If the bears go on the list, the land in which they live will be protected too. A good thing for all of us. Team work.
I get a kick out of the new "fawns" that show up in little groups and suddenly take the same eco-extreme view on these topics. Did you all come over from "green peas" [sic] or "peta" together?
There are many times more Polar Bears today than there were 60 years ago! They aren't endangered. Also, they said building the Alaskan pipeline in the 70's was going to "destroy" the Caribou by interferingwith their migration. Guess what? Caribou have thrived in the years since it was built including calving cows finding the slightly warmer area immediately around it good for calving.