Most people do not realize what has just happened. By listing the polar bear as endangered, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Department of Interior has just given itself the power to essentially nationalize the economy.
This is not hyperbole. The polar bear was listed as endangered not because populations are dwindling. They are, in fact, increasing. They were listed because its habitat is allegedly being threatened by anthropogenic global warming.
FWS now has the power to “preserve” its habitat, and to control activities that are threatening its habitat. What are these activities? Everything we do that generates carbon dioxide (CO2), which is everything we do ? every production process, our living and travel decisions, all the energy we consume, indeed our very existence generates CO2.
This listing has given the FWS more power over our lives and freedom than ratification of Kyoto would have ever granted our government. That is because Kyoto at least had a closed-ended target ? this decision leaves it all up to the eco-fascist bureaucrats that run the Interior Department. And remember, the Interior Department that made this decision is in the executive branch. Last I looked that was controlled by Republicans.
