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Article: LISTING POLAR BEARS WRONG MOVE.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 9, 2008
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Byline: SARAH PALIN GUEST COLUMNIST
The entire world has seen animated holiday images of cute, cuddly, polar bears smiling and dancing - and pitching cold soft drinks on TV and movie screens.
That's the closest most Americans will ever get to a polar bear. To steal a line from one of the commercials, it's not "the real thing."
It's unfortunate, because polar bears are magnificent animals, not cartoon characters. They are worthy of our utmost efforts to conserve them and their Arctic habitat.
For Alaska, that means recognizing that although climate change is a serious concern for everyone on the planet, it is not the only issue ...