That Didn’t Take Long: Enviros Want Global Warming Laws Tied In With Polar Bear Status
Just a few days after the Interior Department decision, in what was clearly a bow to the politically correct eco types, environmentalists are crying that the Bush Administration didn’t go far enough by listing polar bears as threatened.
They want global warming laws to be part of the package:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials’ refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act.
In court documents filed late Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups asked a federal judge to reject Interior Department actions that were announced last week.
Can these people possibly be any more transparent?
Kassie Siegel, climate director for the CBD, said the administration’s proposal “violates both logic and the law” because it did not address the primary threat to polar bears. The listing of polar bears under the law is significant, she acknowledged, but the groups want them classified as endangered, a more serious category than threatened.
There was an ancient fable about a camel that was freezing on a cold desert night. The Bedouin owner allowed the camel to stick its nose under the tent to keep it warm. Then came the neck. Then, before he knew it, the whole camel was in the tent and Bedouin was out in the cold because of his generosity.
This action on the part of the enviros is the camel’s nose under the tent and it was graciously allowed to get there by an overly generous Interior Department’s decision to declare a non-threatened species as threatened. The politically correct enviornmentalists’ intent is clear: stop oil production and force all of us to live according to how they think we should live.
Didn’t waste any time getting under the tent, did they?
