Ok, I realize I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but in case you didn’t already know it, Sarah Palin, McCain’s VP pick, is a big defender of the aerial hunting of wolves. That’s when people fly around in airplanes picking off as many wolves as they can. In order to encourage more wolf kills, she’s offered a $150 bounty for every left foreleg of a wolf brought in by wolf shooters in certain areas. (I won’t call them hunters—hunters have a code of ethics that seems to be completely lacking in these drive bys).

Palin is not only threat to wolves, but also a threat to the environment as a whole. Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, says that Palin:

“has repeatedly put special interests first when it comes to the environment. In her scant two years as governor, she has lobbied aggressively to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, pushed for more drilling off of Alaska’s coasts, and put special interests above science. Ms. Palin has made it clear through her actions that she is unwilling to do even as much as the Bush administration to address the impacts of global warming. Her most recent effort has been to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list, putting Big Oil before sound science. As unbelievable as this may sound, this actually puts her to the right of the Bush administration.”

‘nuff said. You all know what another four years of Cheney-esque environmental policy will do to our world. But pass it along to anyone who might not.