The Oct. 10 news article “Trump initiative eyes $50M for Greenland’s polar bears” reported that the Trump administration is contemplating $50 million in foreign aid to protect polar bears in Greenland — a sum so vast that it perplexed even the country’s conservation researchers.

Polar bears are an amazing part of our world that we should preserve for future generations. But this proposal comes at a time when U.S. polar bears are facing grave danger from oil industry operations spurred on by President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel agenda. In Alaska’s Arctic, companies are preparing to roll into polar bear habitat with heavy industrial equipment that could crush bear cubs in their dens. Seismic testing, employed to locate underground oil reserves, uses 90,000-pound vehicles called “thumper tru

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