http://www.savethepolarbear.org/

Save The Polar Bears!

Polar bears are dying. As global warming accelerates, the sea ice they depend on for survival is literally melting away. Bears are starving and drowning as they have to swim farther and farther to reach solid ice. Some are even turning to cannibalism in a desperate search for food. Those trapped on land hundreds of miles from the nearest ice often wander near villages in search of food and are shot.

As if that weren’t enough, oil and gas drilling is destroying and polluting their fast-dwindling Arctic habitat.

A third of all polar bears — including all bears in Alaska — will be extinct by 2050 if current trends continue. The rest of the species will be gone by the end of the century.

But it’s not too late to save the polar bear if we join together and take immediate action. The science is clear.  We know what needs to be done — we just need to build the political support to do it.

Please sign the petition below to encourage President Barack Obama to rein in global warming and save the polar bear now.

http://www.savethepolarbear.org/

PETITION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: SAVE THE POLAR BEAR
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
The world’s inhabitants — people, animals, and plants — are relying on you to take immediate measures to stop the climate crisis in its tracks. Please do everything in your power to fully enforce existing environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, and National Environmental Policy Act to curb greenhouse gas emissions now.
 
Please take swift action to:
 
• Establish strong national and international goals for greenhouse emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric carbon levels be reduced to no more than 350 parts per million.
 
• Pass a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat. Encourage other nations to do the same.
 
• Prohibit the building of new coal-fired power plants and replace existing plants with clean, renewable energy sources.
 
• Lead the nation in a rapid, large-scale effort to conserve energy, improve fuel efficiency, and operationalize clean energy technologies.
 
We’re depending on you to have the courage to take on the biggest crisis in human history without flinching.
 
Signed,