Can’t help passing this plea on, a petition to save the polar bears. It is apparently not enough that global warming is diminishing their habitat, but now the danger of oil pollution may add to this catastrophe actually endangering the species, the very existence of the polar bear.
Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Imagine a catastrophic oil spill off the coast of the Arctic Refuge – what would happen to polar bears?
In the past month, 58,000 gallons of oil spilled in San Francisco Bay, 2,000 tons of oil spilled in Russia’s Black Sea, and 10,000 tons of oil spilled off the coast of South Korea.
These ecological disasters will affect wildlife for years.
Tell Congress: protect polar bears and their Arctic home from toxic oil drilling.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America’s vanishing polar bears.
But just one toxic oil spill off this spectacular coast could spell disaster for polar bear mothers and their cubs.
Urge Congress to stand up to Big Oil. Please sign our petition to permanently protect the Arctic Refuge today!
Here is the petition, easy to sign on to. The more Americans who express concern, the more likely it will be that Congress will take notice.
We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:
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.
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.
holy crap. You forgot to blame AIPAC. What are you, slipping?
Are you kidding me.
Of course AIPAC is involved, deeply involved. You have apparently forgotten, in your quickness to criticize, the Buddhist principle of “interpenetration,” which simply means that everything is associated with everything else.
That being the case, have you also forgotten the drive to attack Iran, the projected topping out of oil prices at $150 a barrel, the China sucking sound, and trong pressures on the US to exploit all domestic means to golden flow of oil? Also our corrupt goverment? AIPAC’s position is fuck the bears; Code Red is on at the Pentagon.
Geez. And this is a political blog?
I can tell you’re a high school graduate. I’m impressed.
It’s called a tautology.
What it means is that you have devised a way of interpreting the world so that your position must always be true.
In this case:
A=Events occur in the world
B=Events are principally influenced by AIPAC
Conclusion: B is principally responsible for A.
Let’s see how it works.
A= Polar bears dying off is an event in the world
B= AIPAC is the principle influence on events in the world.
Conclusion: AIPAC is principally responsible for the death of polar bears.
Technically, this is called begging the question.
If you want to know whether AIPAC is repsonsible for something, you cannot use the premise (B) that they are responsible for everything.
For example:
Does God exist?
If you use a premise that the world must have a creator to prove that God exists, you have ‘begged’ the answer into the question.
Interpenetration answers nothing because it answers everything. It’s also irritating me.
Thanks teach’ for the lesson. Interpenetration is not about logical arguments but about life, you know, the stuff that goes on out here in the world, not in the mind.
“It’s also irritating me.” Understandable.
well, some asteroid that smashed into the polar icecap 13,000 years ago is responsible for the death of the wooly mammoth and the sabertooth cat. But, using your logically formulation, it’s AIPAC’s fault.
Asteroids? Piddly.
A group of astronomers recently estimated that there were 100 billion galaxies in the Universe. The time necessary to traverse the Milky Way, our own galaxy, whose diameter has been measured to be about 100,000 light-years, is 100,000 times 9.46 trillion kilometers. One light year is the distance at which light travels in a year. Then an astronomer recently reported that he discovered an empty space in the distant Universe that would take one billion years to across at the speed of light, or 1,000,000,000 times 9.46 trillion kilometers.
Only through spirits and magic could one conceivably traverse such distances. So just how important is the absurdity of human beings when measured against such distances?
And you want to talk politics?
AIPAC, SMAYPAC.
I will not accuse you of derailing my diary, but I don’t think your community really cares about polar bears. When no one cared about saving this Alaska Refuge, I even changed the title to emphasize that it was about the extinction of polar bears.
Is there a reverse evolution going on that no one is talking about.