Innuit versus US possibly decreeing Polar Bears endangered
January 15, 2008 - 10:09am
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More such issues will certainly emerge as indiginous people's ways of life are threatened by others follies. Another example is whaling by the Japanese.
see: http://tinyurl.com/yuyuod
Errr... Way of life? If the Americans add this to the threatened species list, the only immidiate effect is in the article posted:
quote: The Inuit fear that if Washington does declare the bear a threatened species, it will deter U.S. hunters, who spend millions of dollars a year for the right to shoot the animals in the Canadian Arctic.
I'm not entirely sure why loss of American hunters that pay money to shoot these bears is threatening 'a way of life'. I can see the economic concerns though.
Noise: You are right: puting bears on the edangered species list would certainly not endanger a way of life. I was thinking(and did not express it) that as habitats and species are destroyed we will see ways of life threatened.
The bears were just one example of many which are occuring, some visible some maybe not.
[ 15 January 2008: Message edited by: mudman ]
I read somewhere else that this Green lobby looked around for an attractive 'symbol' they could use to lobby for global warming issues. Seems to me another example of us 'whiteys' usurping voices, making decisions for other people: They didn't ask first.