*dons activist hat*
Throw a critical lifeline to suffering polar bears with just
one click. It only takes a few seconds to
add your signature to your online Official Citizen Comment -- but this simple action is the single most important thing you can do to help save polar bears from global warming and extinction.
Please submit it right now -- because we only have a narrow window of time in which the Bush Administration is accepting public input on a proposal to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.
On April 9, that window slams shut and the public comment period ends.
More than 100,000 of your fellow online activists have already submitted their Official Citizen Comments through NRDC's PolarBearSOS website...but with only 5 weeks left to reach our goal of 500,000 comments, we need you to step up now!
Our goal for this week is to reach 200,000 Citizen Comments. We're counting on you to help us meet it!
Click here to submit your Citizen Comment now -- we don't have a minute to waste. The distress signals from the Arctic are growing louder and more desperate as polar bears suffer the terrible effects of global warming and melting ice.
If you're like me, I'm sure it pains you deeply to imagine...
...The last gasp of a polar bear before it drowns in the vast waters of the Arctic, unable to reach the increasingly distant ice floes it needs to find food.
...The muffled cries of newborn polar bear cubs as they are buried alive when their snowy den collapses from unseasonable rains.
...The exhaustion of a mother polar bear and her young as they succumb to starvation after enduring longer and longer periods without food.
This is the terrible and inexcusable toll that global warming pollution is taking on the polar bear. I'm sure you agree: It must stop now!
Today, we have an unprecedented opportunity to win protection for the polar bear.
But we only have a few weeks left to create a blizzard of 500,000 Comments -- so please
submit your online Official Citizen Comment right away. The polar bear's future depends on the action you take today.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
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