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Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change.

 

The media have given her family the full soap opera treatment, but perhaps they should focus instead on her environmental record which is truly alarming. 'We need to drill, drill, drill,' she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

From putting a $150 bounty on wolf paws to entice hunters to kill more of these elusive wild dogs, to spending $400,000 of public money to defeat an initiative that would have banned aerial hunting of wolves for sport, she is at the forefront of those who want to squeeze all the cash it can get out of Alaska before the oil dries up, the fish die and the wildlife disappears.

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