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发帖数: 8441 | 1 企鹅在南极，南极实际上是变冷的。
So, the penguin paranoia is completely unjustified. Of course, you can’t
take away the terror that has and continues to be inflicted on children who
love our tuxedo feathered friends largely through viewings of “March of the
Penguins” and “Happy Feet.”
But that is the way of the enviro-alarmist. Pick a loveable looking
creature that makes a great plush toy, and then create alarm that it is
endangered from some source in order to demonize production and
manufacturing in the United States and the developed world.
After all, it is far easier to make the battle about the penguin or even the
polar bear than it is to fight over a snail darter, smelt or even a Great
Plains Narrowmouth frog.
In the enviro-fundraising world, mammals and birds sell, insects and
reptiles don’t. In order to keep their machine well oiled in small
donations of youngsters lunch money, penguins have to be part of the global
warming endangerment, whether they are actually threatened or not.
Incredibly the enviros are winning this game, with the Obama Administration
Interior Department adding five penguin species to the endangered list even
though not a single penguin lives naturally in the U.S. or any of our
territories.
To quote from an article on treehugger.com, the outcome disappointed
environment extremists who had hoped to hit a grand slam instead of the solo
home run with the ruling, “conservationists had hoped that the petition
would force the Obama administration to confront climate change as a threat
to ecology and biodiversity worldwide.”
Under the ruling, the Obama Administration did not include climate change as
a rationale for the “endangerment” of penguins, temporarily denying
environmentalists a legal tool to shut down U.S. domestic energy production
using the impact on our waddling south pole friends as the justification.
However, getting five species penguins listed as endangered species to
requests that additional penguins be included using global warming as the
rationale. The recent faux uproar over Arctic ice data and what it means
for penguins on the other side of the globe is just one more step in that
direction.
Because it really doesn’t matter that the penguin habitat is not threatened
in Antarctica.
The only thing that matters is getting money to promote policies that attack
and destroy free market economies around the world on the green altar.
So pay attention to our tuxedoed feathery friend, he is likely to become the
new symbol in the enviro battle to shut down coal-fired electric generation
plants – even as he thrives in the massive, expanding ice flows
surrounding his home in Antarctica.
Because in the waning months of 2012, facts are meaningless, it is about
perception and spin, and after all who wouldn’t want to protect Tennessee
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