American right says saving polar bears "a dangerous idea"

From the e-inbox this morning, this call-to-arms put out in the U.S. by those who dismiss the notion that climate change is happening and that it’s dangerous. You can find the original with more background on the blog American Daily. The author is apparently Chuck Cushman, executive director of the American Land Rights Association. He’s asking Americans to call, fax, or write the president and other officials to prevent them from placing the Polar Bear on the U.S. Endangered Species List. Their thinking, which should be crystal clear from the letter below, is that such a symbolic statement will “start the ball rolling down the hill toward you.”

Here’s the call:

Proposed Polar Bear ESA listing threatens you!

Global warming regulations will come at you hard – This is an all out call to action.

You must call, write, fax and e-mail again and again.

See Action Items below

—–You have no time to waste.  You must deluge the White House and Interior Department with calls, faxes and e-mails.  We’ve given you some special inside numbers and addresses below.

—–Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the Department of the Interior and its Fish and Wildlife Service are getting ready to trample on your rights, drive up your cost of living, and regulate virtually every aspect of your life.

—–President Bush plans to announce his concern about the Polar Bear in his January 28 State of the Union address.  This statement will start the regulatory ball rolling down the hill toward you.

Under intense pressure from radical environmentalists over their perceived threat of Global Warming, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne is dropping hints that under the Endangered Species Act, he will declare the Polar Bear a threatened species – within the next few weeks but after the President¹s State of the Union Message.

If he does, any activity that arguably adds to hypothetical global warming Š and thus supposedly causes arctic ice melting, habitat loss and Polar Bear deaths Š will be subject to Department of the Interior (DOI) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) control.

This decision would destroy jobs, undermine economic growth and destroy personal choice on the basis of conjecture and computer models.

—–When the public realizes how much damage is caused by naming the Polar Bear a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act, this economically destructive decision will cause massive outrage among the voters.

This decision would effectively put the Fish and Wildlife Service – and an army of bureaucrats, regulators, activists and judges – in charge of every energy and economic decision in America. The impact could easily be worse than the Kyoto Protocol.

You¹re going to have Fish and Wildlife agents on your property.

Compared to this decision, the Spotted Owl and Snail Darter cases were pimples on an elephant.

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne plans to issue his Endangered Species Act ³Threatened Polar Bears² decision a week or so after the President¹s State of the Union message. But it could happen even earlier than that.

You can help stop it.
—–Action Items:

—–1.  Tell President Bush ­ Keep the Polar Bear out of his State of the Union address. Ask Secretary Kempthorne to scrap this dangerous idea.