Current Events: October 29, 2009

Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska

By John M. Broder

Published: October 22, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department on Thursday proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land, sea and ice along the northern coast of Alaska as critical habitat for the shrinking polar bear population.

The polar bears are continuing to have a decrease in their population. There are a few reasons for this but the two main ones that upset me are global warming and oil drilling. Of course there isn’t much we can do about the global warming crisis, we did this to ourselves and we cannot reverse it, but the oil drilling is controllable. The bears have no where to go so the government is going to give them a 200,000 square mile area in Alaska that they can live on. The only problem here is that there is still gas being dilled here. So why would you put the endangered, close to extinct, polar bears there when the land is still being used? The whole situation is stupid, the bears were there first and all we do is ruin ecosystems and ruin other life. We have to sustain ourselves, I understand that, but we need to stop this oil drilling. We need to find another source of energy because this is getting out of control. We aren’t doing anything to help ourselves, and we also end up hurting other species too.