New figures show that the CO2 levels in the atmosphere are now at its highest in over 650,000 years. Simultaneously the US has listed the polar bear as a threatened species.
The polar bear has become the symbol of how climate change is affecting the world, through the melting of the ice habitat in the Artic Sea. Still today’s announcement does not come with a promise of change, despite that US government scientists predict that two thirds of the polar bear population could disappear by 2050.
Dirk Kempthorne, US Interior Secretary said: “While the legal standards under the Endangered Species Act compel me to list the Polar bear as threatened…I want to make clear that the listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting.”
This is not a promising message from the nation who in 1990 was responsible for 36.1 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emission.
We can only wonder about the level of stupidity in the American government, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the world’s wellbeing is depended on a change in US political policies.
For a government that talkes about freedom of the individual, democracy and justice, they sure don’t practise what they preach, as no individual freedom will be of any benefit if we destroy our world and the balance of the eco system.
We now plead to the American people to wise up and realise how influential their government is on the rest of the world, and although we can’t participate in the US political system, the American people have to participate for us.
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