The polar bear juggernaut

The environmental wackos fought hard for this threatened bear ruling because it now allows government to regulate almost everything. If it stands everyone and everything in America will have to pass a carbon environmental impact standard. Frankly, government will be able to control everything, tax everything, ration whatever they want and so on and so forth. They are not going to do this all at once because the frogs would jump out of the pot but they will continue to turn up the heat with environmental lawsuits and Leftist regulations.

Then one day you will be told that your government radio controlled thermostat will be set at 82 degrees in the summer and 65 in the winter. You will be allowed to have only 5 gallons of gas per week unless you pay four times the going rate. Everything you buy will have a carbon tax like a sales tax, etc etc. Are you beginning to get the picture? If so you had better do something about it before you lose your country to these environmental nut cases who really hate the human race more than they love polar bears.

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Now that polar bears are wards of the government, and now that it is a legal doctrine that humans are responsible for global warming, the Endangered Species Act has acquired unlimited application. Anything that can be said to increase global warming can — must — be said to threaten bears already designated as threatened.

Want to build a power plant in Arizona? A building in Florida? Do you want to drive an SUV? Or leave your cell phone charger plugged in overnight? Some judge might construe federal policy as proscribing these activities. Kempthorne says such uses of the act, unintended by those who wrote it in 1973, would be “wholly inappropriate.” But in 1973, climate Cassandras were saying that “the world’s climatologists are agreed” that we must “prepare for the next ice age” (Science Digest, February 1973). And no authors of the Constitution or the Fourteenth Amendment intended to create a “fundamental” right to abortion, but there it is.

No one can anticipate or control the implications that judges might discover in the polar bear designation. Give litigious environmentalists a compliant judge and the Endangered Species Act might become what New Dealers wanted the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 to be — authority to regulate almost everything.