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- WordsnCollision, on 10/22/2009, -5/+17Outraged Palin tweeting in 3... 2... 1...
- ahhell, on 10/23/2009, -2/+12Obama Administration not a slave to the oil industry?
How is this not a win? - horakhti, on 10/23/2009, -1/+9Great, now what about protection FROM polar bears? Those things can ***** you up.
- BeowulfCode3, on 10/23/2009, -3/+8good. i'm sick of people destroying our environment. maybe now we can protect some more rain forest. Anyone who argues that protected land is worse than more tract homes or developed land is just another gross example of humanity. The type of person who probably has never been camping, or ever looked *up* at the night sky. Here is to hoping you get eaten by a polar bear on the way to the strip mall, cheers.
- curunir, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5Actually, the polar bear population is *increasing*:
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba551/ - nullvector, on 10/23/2009, -3/+7Yes! Save the polar bears.....so they can eat seals!
Strange how we care about one species, and try to prop up its population, so it can just eat another one.
Do we really care about animals themselves? Or is it just the numbers that count. - Dermisgermis, on 10/23/2009, -1/+5I, for one, welcome our new bear overlords
- DankBuddz, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3Guess what I don't care about?
People paying $5 /gallon for their gas.
Not like you have any understanding of the oil market anyway. - Opiate, on 10/23/2009, -1/+4Read this as feds taking over more state property. Sovereignty games.
- Crimeodial, on 10/23/2009, -2/+4Weak troll. 0/10
- BaphClass, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3I think what's going on here is attempting to reduce our impact on these species' habitats. Human activity is prone to completely disrupting breeding cycles and creating unnatural behavior in animals that have never been exposed to us. You've got bears stalking outside small towns in the North because we're so prone to leaving garbage and scraps of food around. When this happens, the odds of a mother stumbling across a human while attempting to feed its cubs are greatly increased. The odds of a human knowing what to do when you're between a polar bear and its food are slim. Thus, you've got a mauled human, a dead or actively hunted mother, and a couple of starving (soon to be dead) cubs.
Net loss for humanity = 1 human
Net loss for the polar bear population = >1 polar bear
Now, what would be a more natural, and thus safer food source for polar bears residing in a habitat with no nearby towns/camps/settlements? You guessed it: seals. Seals which are in no danger of suffering a catastrophic reduction in numbers due to human activity. Seals which have depended on a predator/prey relationship to maintain their numbers. Seals that would overbreed and likely starve themselves without the presence of a predatory species that is very much under threat.
The increasingly warm summers in the Arctic are having a huge effect on polar bear numbers as well--setting them up for a short-term boost in numbers due to shrinking sea-ice protecting water-borne seals, but inducing a devastating long-term reduction in numbers of both predators and prey due to overfeeding--which threatens to throw the ecosystem out of balance even further. Habitats like these serve as a buffer of sorts from human interference. They stay isolated from us, which means we can't ***** up their natural breeding/feeding cycles; unless we're having a larger impact on the environment than we thought, in which case they'll likely suffer a complete loss of habitat in around 100 years and go extinct anyway. The point is: We're trying to make amends for the ***** that we've done so far. Got it? - nullvector, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2I've yet to see why that matters.
Like I said, are we just preserving numbers, or do we really care about animal life.
Seems like the justification is just to preserve numbers, to me. - inactive, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3Support your right to ARM and keep BEARS.
- JoeParanoid, on 10/23/2009, -7/+9About time.
- BaphClass, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Polar bear habitat = American runs out of oil tomorrow.
You were just arguing for the sake of arguing, weren't you? - Krakerjax, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2I found grim humor in the fact that the submitter of that article's account is now deleted.
- pinchduck, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2The numbers, of course. Who cares if you personally love the last polar bear on the planet like a pet. High enough numbers of both polar bears and seals to support predation is the best possible scenario.
- pinchduck, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3Why would that happen? Did we suddenly lose the ability to purchase oil? What massive energy reserve has been jeopardized by protecting the polar bears? When do you predict our production will drop and our lights will go out?
- DolphinBlueInc, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1This is great news. I agree with woccixelsyd though, we do need to do more to help other species as well. But at least this is a start!!!
- zoomaKabu, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1No, pretty sure we are the "top-level" predators.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -1/+2horakhti: That's just how nature works, polar bears are top-level predators.
- dtele, on 10/23/2009, -1/+2Don't get out of the boat... whatever you do, don't get out of the boat!
- charlietuna, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1You meant suck on *this* Sarah... no?
- biogears, on 10/23/2009, -2/+3Guess we'll have to buy that oil from the middle east then and let them employ their people.
- RossDuprey, on 10/24/2009, -0/+1We would then use the polar bears for fuel.
- WocCixelsyd, on 10/24/2009, -1/+2Oh, I guess Friday is the day when Digg's right wing bury brigade comes out in force.
Seriously, there is no real downside to protecting the polar bears. It's not going to effect energy in the U.S. and I highly doubt that it's some spooky government plot to take all of our land. Did people get this up in arms against protecting wolves?
Now if only we can get people to give a damn about the untold numbers of non-cuddly species that go extinct every year... - horakhti, on 10/23/2009, -1/+1Wow! Thanks Dr. Science! ;)
- BuriedAgain, on 10/23/2009, -1/+1...facepalm
- zoomaKabu, on 10/23/2009, -4/+3The first time your heat or electricity gets cut off because there isn't enough oil you won't give a damn about the polar bears. It will be too late to do anything about it by then and you'll just have to get used to a third world standard of living but hey, at least there's lots of polar bears three thousand miles away.
- mwilhelm, on 10/23/2009, -2/+1HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yes, there are millions of interested colonists chomping at the bit for the opportunity to settle sunny northern Alaska. And that socialist (read: *****) in the white house is all that's standing between them and freedom.
Maybe you should petition your representative to remove the term limit so he can run again.
I'd probably pay to see that. - curunir, on 10/23/2009, -2/+1"How is this not a win?"
Because it's all part of the implementation of Agenda 21?
http://digg.com/politics/U_N_Agenda_21_and_Globali ... - Drizzit, on 10/23/2009, -3/+2Because polar bears are in danger of going extinct from loss of habitat due to the polar ice shelf shrinking. Though I'd take it a step further and build some fake icebergs that they normally swim between to travel in the summer so they do not drown when all the ice melts.
- TimtheTaxMan, on 10/23/2009, -5/+2How does offshore oil drilling affect polar bears?
I’ve never understood why people are so protective of ANWAR. No one goes there and the oil companies could promise to put things back just they why they were when they are done. I don’t think the caribou will mind. - TheJimid, on 10/23/2009, -6/+3Suck on those Palin
- prakash1234, on 10/23/2009, -7/+1why not stop a oil refinery because my pussy roams around there
- DrNemo, on 10/23/2009, -12/+2Obama hampering civilisation for the benefit of beasts that would kill you if they had you close enough? I already miss Bush.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -14/+3Cool...cause Americans WANT to pay $5/gallon for their gas.
So President Asshat, you're doing WHAT to help the economy and the rampant joblessness?
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