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November 9, 2009

Y2Kyoto: In The Pay Of Big Polar Bear Rug

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

David Suzuki blog, August 2009

And yet, Canada’s Arctic strategy proposes no solutions for dealing with the biggest threat to the fragile and vulnerable environment and Arctic indigenous peoples—climate change. [...] Stephen Harper’s Arctic mantra, “Use it or lose it,” is wildly off-base. The Inuit don’t “use” the North. They are the North. They—and we—are at risk of losing the ecological and cultural diversity of the North not because of lack of use, but because we aren’t protecting them from their greatest threat. Canada’s vision of using “it” will likely make it worse.

Red Star, November 2009

Inuit hunters insist those experts have it all wrong because they are using computer models based on outdated data and ignoring the traditional knowledge of people who share the land with wildlife. Inuit fear pressure from conservationists will lead to polar bear prohibition, and turn Inuit hunters into international pariahs, as east coast sealers have been demonized by the campaign against killing baby harp seals.

Posted by Kate at November 9, 2009 9:12 AM
Comments

Remember GreenPeace"s fur trapping is bad campaign that decimated the trapping industry? I remember a starry eyed GPer that came to my door seeking donations. I accused GP of attempted genocide. I asked if she realized at that time GP was an American corporation worth about 50 million dollars? The toes in her socks zealot (literally) said but would I donate to save the whales? Hello wall, want to talk?

Posted by: Speedy at November 9, 2009 9:53 AM

Back to Canada's inhumane seal hunt, I wonder what Suzuki and Denmark's Socialist MEP's (like lead firebrand Christel Schaldemose) who led the way in campaigning for a ban on Canadian seal product imports say about this Danish tradition:

http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/10/11/denmarks-gruesome-festival-mass-killing-of-whales-and-dolphins-to-prove-adulthood/

Posted by: Rete at November 9, 2009 9:59 AM

if David Suzuki says it , it must be gospel, after all CBCpravda publishes his every word.

Posted by: cal2 at November 9, 2009 10:32 AM

That's right, the Inuit don't "use the North" the same way Suzuki "uses the North" and the Inuit for that matter, as a political tool.

Posted by: Doug at November 9, 2009 10:34 AM

"if David Suzuki says it , it must be gospel, after all CBCpravda publishes his every word.

Posted by: cal2 at November 9, 2009 10:32 AM
And afer all,cal2...the loopy limeys made it a religion!Must be all those deep fried eggs rotting their brains,besides their teeth.

Posted by: Justthinkin at November 9, 2009 10:36 AM

never thought of Suzuki or Peter Mansbridge as limeys?

I miss the referance.

Posted by: cal2 at November 9, 2009 10:45 AM

CBCpravda told me there was no ice


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/11/09/coral-harbour-search.html#socialcomments

Posted by: cal2 at November 9, 2009 10:51 AM

It is mind numbing to encounter individuals who think Polar Bears are dying in clumps.
My take is these individuals are indifferent/wilfully ignorant of current events, (besides watching survivor) and are only in contact with the KYOTO BS....and that minimally.
Much like the ancient Roman mob, they are the plaything of politicians.

Posted by: sasquatch at November 9, 2009 10:52 AM

I read an old article about the first guy to shoot a polar bear with a handgun. In 1965, Bob Peterson, of Guns&Ammo, shot a polar bear with a .44 magnum. It was quite an interesting article, written in a style you don't see these days.

The locals probably made thousands of dollars from that hunt, and hundreds of thousands from future hunts, as a direct result of the article. I don't remember much from 1965, except that bears weren't considered fragile, they were considered big, bad, and dangerous.

Posted by: dp at November 9, 2009 10:54 AM

If the Inuit "are the north" then we and our way of living 'are the south' and Suzuki should defend us too.

Posted by: Gord Tulk at November 9, 2009 10:54 AM

Justthinkin...
Actually that limey judge made an excellant ruling....re CO2 Climate Change/Global Warming there is not proper science---just a belief system---it is in effect a religion.
In practical terms this puts it in the same category as JIHAD.
NOT SCIENCE!!!

Posted by: sasquatch at November 9, 2009 10:56 AM

Excuse me for coming in late. But it needs to be said, the polar bear hunt must stop.

Video of bears being clubbed to death is just awfull....

Posted by: eastern paul at November 9, 2009 11:01 AM

The Inuit don't use the North (why am I capitalizing it?) but they use the monies gathered there from resources, and they buy rifles snowmobiles etc., or are they just given it by their protectors, the nanny governments there?

Posted by: larben at November 9, 2009 11:02 AM

Mao Stlong's Red Orympics palade stopped by one polar bear; a conservative blue polar bear.

"Dare to be a Daniel polar bear; dare to stand alone".
...-

"Polar bear greets Olympic torch"

"Driving in from the airport with the Olympic flame, the convoy had to stop to allow a polar bear to cross the road."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/11/08/11677066-cp.html

Posted by: maz2 at November 9, 2009 11:10 AM

Suzuki has hated man for a long time.

He thinks we are no better than maggots.

This 1972 video shows the Messiah Hippy has been brainwashing our kids for decades - with help from the CBC. Sickening.

Posted by: ron in kelowna ∴ at November 9, 2009 11:42 AM

[quote]Inuit hunters insist those experts have it all wrong because they are using computer models based on outdated data and ignoring the traditional knowledge of people who share the land with wildlife. [/quote]post

The Inuit are living proof that they are the only experts of the Environment in which they live...

Suzuki is an expert is absolutely nothing, but living off the ignorance of others

The role of Suzuki & Canada's Environmental Groups (including the NDP) has been to fill thier own pockets at the expense of the people of the North...Green jobs telling the Inuit how to survive the northern environment...nonsence…

Posted by: Phillip G. Shaw at November 9, 2009 11:45 AM

TransAlta used to put ads with the creepy old Suzuki camped out at night in a treehouse with little kids. he was telling them to turn in their parents

Posted by: cal2 at November 9, 2009 11:46 AM

We need Phelim McAleer to ask an inconvenient question about polar bears numbers, as he recently put to Gore. Meither Gore, nor Dr Fruit Fly respond at all well to sceptical questioners.

Posted by: Martin at November 9, 2009 12:11 PM

A good friend of mine lived in Churchill, in the late 70s. At that time, problem polar bears were killed. Everyone in town was required to carry a gun, during the bear migration. Now, problem bears are trapped, removed, and allowed an opportunity to back to the schoolyard, for another attempt. Polar bears never had much fear of man, but what little fear they had is gone.

A controlled hunt would be a good thing, but no hunter wants to face an army of greenpeace zombies, at every turn. Ever notice, those protestors never confront Inuit hunters? They must have been warned of the consequences.

Posted by: dp at November 9, 2009 12:28 PM

And Canada will still NOT send its top Polar Bear expert to conference because he rejected Global Warming/Climate Change.

I fear this is just so the Cons can join the USA in the Cap & Trade scheme they want to implement.

I am very interested on seeing how Canada responds to the meetings on Global Warming later on. I wish they had the backbone to state this is nothing but a money grab by the UN to give to the “poor” nations. Science does not support Global Warming.

I hope there are some independent politicians running next election – particularly if they reject Global Warming – for they would get my vote.

Posted by: Clown Party at November 9, 2009 12:55 PM

I live on the other side of the world and I am an expert on baby seals - I saw this lovely photo with the cute baby seal and this horrible person clubbing it to death. That was sarcasm by the way. Frankly,latte sipping elites living in urban high rises have no idea about the reality that underlies their lifestyle - nor can they be bothered to find out.

Posted by: KimW at November 9, 2009 3:15 PM

"Polar bears are in decline, alright, but not everywhere*. (H/T TORedStar)".

For more AGW "insight", go here*.
...-

"Canadian teen survives Arctic ice floe, polar bears

OTTAWA — Canadian air force paratroopers on Monday rescued a teenager adrift overnight on an Arctic ice floe and threatened by polar bears, an official told AFP.

The 17-year-old boy and an older friend had been hunting near Coral Harbor, Nunavut when they became separated and lost on Sunday.

The teen, who was not immediately identified, was rescued Monday after a night in frigid temperatures with two polar bears on an ice floe that drifted into the Arctic Ocean, said Captain Michael Young.

"This young man had quite a journey," Young said by telephone from the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Ontario.

"It was cold and dark," he told AFP. "And there was apparently a couple of polar bears on the ice floe with him too.""

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gBfaOng5FxopKKBo9cWhYidPlJ2A

*http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/722760--the-bear-facts-about-the-polar-bear-hunt

Posted by: maz2 at November 9, 2009 3:32 PM

The whole thing smacks of paternalistic racism. If a (formerly) Stone Age culture wishes to hunt- within reason- a certain animal or defend itself against the said animal, why can't they? We see again the rift between two cultures and the chief offenders are the same people "loathe" to tell others how to live. When will the Inuit tell David Suzuki to cram it?

Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe at November 9, 2009 3:52 PM

FCK the polar bears!

And the seals!

Posted by: Indiana Homez at November 9, 2009 4:12 PM

Is it me or does the Olympic torch look like an ideal weapon for clubbing baby polar bears and seals ?

Posted by: Rural and Right at November 9, 2009 4:12 PM

"Is it me or does the Olympic torch look like an ideal weapon for clubbing baby polar bears and seals ?"

And it burns fossil fuels. I like your thinking.

Posted by: Indiana Homez at November 9, 2009 4:27 PM

I want to know who has the right to tell me what is within reason.
All I have to say to them is go F$%^ yourself. How dare you!!!!

Posted by: FREE at November 9, 2009 4:30 PM

No tears would be shed if the enviromaniacs where creating a fiction that the Inuit are going extinct.
There people after all.
It wouldn't matter if they couldn't move in the North if it was full of Polar bears. Its the Myth they are trying to manufacture, People be damned!
You can't talk with the deluded. It just upsets them when truth is revealed.
JMO

Posted by: Revnant Dream at November 9, 2009 7:34 PM

Suzuki is such a genius. With Canada abandoning the north, the environment would be left to the tender care of the Russians. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Greg at November 9, 2009 7:35 PM

Last year this story had a little prominence.----http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/548676 ---- The Inuit did a cull of the narwhal population. My take is that because of the American ban on polar bear imports resulted in much fewer guiding opportunities,the Inuit turned to another source of income.

Posted by: wallyj at November 9, 2009 7:44 PM
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