The Times They Are A Changing

Is shooting wolves and bears okay? Sarah Palin may be trying to follow in the path of the Regan administration, tell them enough times and they’ll believe it. Palin says she’s and environmentalist, but we are all wondering what that means to her. She seems to have her own definition. In order to save caribou and moose, she’s sanctioned aerial shooting of wolves and bear in her state of Alaska. Perhaps she hasn’t heard, but nature generally knows how to take care of itself. In fact, she went one step further, $150 was offered for every killed wolf, by her administration. Without any scientific justification, Sarah Palin has set an antiquated law in place to garner votes from her sport hunter citizens.

Her further abysmal record in environmental issues deserves closer examination. Palin’s belief in a non-human source of global warming has, apparently kept her from making any changes in the state of the last frontier, Alaska. With nothing more than meetings on the subject, she watched as the Arctic ice shrunk to its lowest levels during the last two years.

Sarah Palin argued and filed suit with the Bush administration over her vision that Polar bears are no longer endangered. She said she was in possession of a scientific review that proved the point. However, she could not or would not produce the document. Further, Alaskan marine mammal scientists continue to agree with the fact that Polar bears are in serious trouble as their habitat of sea ice is in great reduction.

This time the American public won’t be fooled by the Regan approach of just saying it makes it so. We have brains and we aren’t as dumb as McCain and Palin would like to think we are.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS