Grrrrrrr

I've just opened this email from Carl Pope of the Sierra Club:

Dear Maxxe,


A month ago you signed a petition to Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, telling him that we must act immediately if we want to save the polar bear from future extinction by including it on the Endangered Species List.

Well, 51 days have passed since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its final deadline for deciding whether to include the bear, and this delay has allowed just enough time for oil companies to bid on rights to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea where an estimated one-tenth of the world’s remaining polar bears live. And because there is no proven method for cleaning up oil in the Arctic’s broken sea ice, an oil spill in this area would be catastrophic for the bears.

Last week we sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior along with our fellow environmental organizations demanding an investigation into the delay - but the Administration has yet to comment or provide even a reasonable explanation for the setback. That’s why we are asking our Sierra Club members and supporters to donate today and send a message to the Administration that if they are serious about protecting the polar bear, it’s time to include it on the Endangered Species List - right now!

Polar bears would be listed today if it weren’t for powerful special interests fighting the decision at every step. If we don’t act now to get the polar bear onto the Endangered Species List and get serious about combating global warming, America’s polar bears could be gone in our lifetime.

There is simply no time to lose. We need your support to get the polar bear on the endangered species list right now, so that the oil companies will be forced to clear more hurdles before drilling in this sensitive area. Please donate today and help us get the polar bear listed before it's too late.

And we cannot sit back and wait until the ice sheets melt and the last polar bear drowns before we address the devastating impacts that global warming has had on the polar bear. With your support we can provide a future for this magnificent animal - please donate today.

Sincerely,

Carl Pope
Executive Director

P.S. Please help save the polar bear by supporting the Sierra Club, and our work to protect our wildlife and wildlands, keep our air and water clean, and solve global warming.



im scared :/