It sounds like a big show of words to me without anything to back it up because Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that “this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting.”
What’s the point then? To me it sounds like polar bear is doomed because we know its habitat is disappearing yet we are not going to take aggressive action to slow or stop the decline. 
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2007 say it’s possible that 15,000 polar bears (the current population is estimated to be about 25,000) could be lost in the coming decades due to loss of polar ice with bears in the western Hudson Bay area of Alaska and Canada under the greatest risk and stress.
Environmentalists are plenty mad too. Jamie Rappaport Clark of Defenders of Wildlife said, “They’re trying to make this a threatened listing in name only with no change in today’s impacts and that’s not going to fly.”
According to an article by Associated Press Writer, H. Josef Hebert, environmentalists are already mapping out plans to file lawsuits challenging the restrictive measures set out by Kempthorne that make the declaration of polar bears being endangered just words on paper.
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