The front page of today's paper suggests the US may be ready to list Polar Bears as an endangered species, and cite global warming as the cause.
Talk about a potential poster child for change.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like there has been a lot of pressure from a lot of people to get this to happen. I know how much money, energy, and actual change has happened has a result of salmon being listed. Nope - not enough - yet. But so much more than if they hadn't been....
Listing the polar bears - a top predator - and blaming global warming? Think about it.
There's bound to be a fight about the listing. Energy companies aren't likely to applaud. But people will want to save polar bears. Lets make sure they get listed.
It may be too late for the bears to win (define winning as getting out the other side and getting de-listed - the Bald Eagle won). Hopefully not.
An old article about this in National Geographic
Today's Seattle Times article
UN Works page about polar bears
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