Polar Bears need your (political) help!

[AZBlue]

FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY:



Dear Friend,

A few weeks ago, I wrote to you about the growing list of threats facing polar bears. We've seen the heartbreaking images of polar bears struggling to survive as their habitat shrinks due to global climate change. But the bears also face additional pressures from trophy hunting, a practice that inflicts needless cruelty on this already imperiled species. Since 1994, more than 800 polar bears have been shot, stuffed, mounted, and imported into the United States by trophy hunters. You can help protect polar bears from cruel trophy hunts.

The Polar Bear Protection Act (H.R. 2327/S. 1406) seeks to close a loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act to help protect these majestic creatures from trophy hunting. Congress has the opportunity to shut the door on the importation of sport-hunted polar bears - your elected officials need to hear from you today.

TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief, polite phone call to your U.S. Representative and each of your two U.S. Senators and urge them to co-sponsor the Polar Bear Protection Act. You can reach your members of Congress through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121, or click here to look up your federal legislators and their office phone numbers.


Making a phone call is easy and an effective way to communicate your views. A staff member will take your message and pass it to your legislator. When you call, you can say:

"My name is and I'm calling from to urge to co-sponsor the Polar Bear Protection Act (H.R. 2327/S. 1406). It's critical that we protect the declining populations of polar bears from trophy hunting, especially when they're already struggling with the effects of global warming. Thank you."

After you make your calls, send a follow-up email to your members of Congress and urge your friends and family to get involved.

Thank you for taking action to protect polar bears at this critical time, and for all you do on behalf of animals.

Sincerely,

Mike Markarian
Executive Vice President
The Humane Society of the United States

https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=10606405

[ellie]

1. Thanks for this!

I will call tomorrow. And a kick for the bears.

[ellie]

2. Come on people

Keep this kicked

[The Stranger]

3. K&R

[siligut]

4. Kick. nt

[Az]

5. Nature is doing fine

The problem isn't our destruction of nature. Nature will continue on doing its thing no matter what we do. Nature adapts and envelops whatever conditions comes its way. Life will go on. The trouble is we are adapted to a rather specific environment. We are highly adaptable as a species but nature doesn't care. It wipes out species all the time. In fact on a geological scale we as a species have barely rated a blip compared to other species that nature has nurtured and eventually destroyed.

Nature is a very real way is our enemy. When we fight to preserve the environment we are fighting nature. Nature changes. Nature kills. Nature obliterates. We do not wish to be obliterated. We wish to preserve the environment we have now. And it turns out the environment we have now is dependent on the interconnecting web of life around us. The more species that die out the less robust the particular environment becomes. And nature will continue on. It will develop new species to fit into the new environment we have helped create. And it may not be one hospitable to our survival.

Nature is doing fine. It will wipe us out without a thought. And we seem to be happily helping it along.

[slowry]

6. Your post blows my mind.

I understand that the mechanisms which brought us the natural world will go on (that seems to be your definition of nature), but nobody is suggesting they won't. We're aware we can't destroy physics or chemistry. But we could create an environment where those mechanisms have no chance of supporting life whatsoever -- forget developing new species.

Nature, in the sense of all life as we know it, is NOT doing fine, and that's what this is about. It's quite possible to turn our planet into an unlivable sphere of rock, and we have many examples of other such places.

Sorry, this just reminds me of another recent, very obtuse thread on "nature".

[Az]

9. No thats not quite it

Yes, we can wreak terrible havoc on this planet. But even if we set off all our weapons and poisoned the sky with every pollutant we have available to us nature would keep on going. It would not be recognizable to us. Or rather it would not be habitable to us. But nature is just a process. It goes on no matter what.

And that intractable march is part of our problem. Because we are affecting the path nature is on with our pollutants it is going to produce an environment that is not hospitable to our species. What is required on our part is to figure out how to limit our affect on the environment and eventually learn to control and guide it.

Here is a simple truth. If we do not learn to harness the environment we will eventually fall victim to it. We are creating our own death trap right now in the form of global warming. But even if that were not the case we would still face the issue of a coming ice age. Nature is cyclical left to its own. And we are coming due for the next ice age. And it will devastate the environment as well. But that is nature.

We do not want global warming or a new ice age. Both are destructive to our species. One is the result of our ignorance the other the result of nature. Both are deadly.

[AZBlue]

7. self-serving kick for Friday

[blondie58]

8. well, I didn't see this yesterday!

But tomorrow, I will make the calls.

Magnificent animals. Personally, I don't know how anyone can enjoy having a animal head on their wall, or a gorilla hand for a wastebasket. Things look so much better on the animal.

Thank you for posting this.

[liberalla]

10. kicking and calling!

:kick: