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Alaskan stitches

The Bush administration censored a report dealing with the safe extraction of Arctic oil and fuel as it prepares to auction off 30 million acres of the remote Chukchi Sea.

“The long-awaited assessment was meant to bring together work by scientists in all eight Arctic nations to give an up-to-date picture of oil and gas exploitation in the high north. In addition to that it was supposed to give policy makers a clear set of recommendations on how to extract safely what are thought to be up to one quarter of the world’s energy reserves.” (The Independent)

The land around the Chukchi Sea is also home to much of the regions polar bears; the sale of the land to oil and gas companies is slated for February 6th before Congress can finalize plans to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act…

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Pray for us now in our hour of need

But they are not sinners; in fact, they have no notion of the consequences of greed.

Honest to God, all of this sounds like the work of a horrible villain on Captain Planet: destroying the Arctic wilderness, endangering polar bears–it’s just too quintessentially BAD. This is what the Bad Guys do–exactly these things.

We’ll be heading to the Alaskan Wilderness next week to see if we can’t stave off some of the bloodletting: ARCH DL IV represents the future of humanity and the caribou. In the face of indifference, choose to create.