Do forced good deeds count?

I can't believe that it's happened. The Bush administration has slowly and unwillingly sidled up to the bar and announced a proposal that may not destroy the morale of the citizens, the imprint it leaves on the world, or the scar on my psyche.
Polar bears have had their issues over the last several decades. The global warming trend has diminished their ice flows, forcing them to roam farther to hunt, and thereby threatening their survival. I've heard that they've had to swim huge distances for food, resulting in their drowning deaths ... far more than ever recorded. But knock me over with a feather, the administration is proposing the addition of the polar bear to the endangered species list as a "threatened species" because of a loss of habitat that jeopardizes their survival.
And because the president would never do anything merely out of the kindness of his heart or to better the environment and the planet's animals, this action is in response to a lawsuit filed by three conservation groups, who sued the Department of the Interior in an effort to protect the polar bear from the effects of global warming.
"Polar bears are one of nature's ultimate survivors, able to live and thrive in one of the world's harshest environments," said Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne in a teleconference with reporters. "But we are concerned the polar bears' habitat may literally be melting."
"Science has triumphed over bad policy," said Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace U.S, "Bush has been the Scrooge, Bah Humbug on global warming, but there's rising pressure among public opinion and scientists to do something about this."
"We can't save polar bears without the reduction of greenhouse gases," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona. (Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council are the other groups that were part of the lawsuit.) "We need new federal legislation that caps and reduces greenhouse gas emissions," she said.
After a public comment period and additional study, the Department of the Interior will make a final decision on the polar bear's status in 12 months. So the protection of the polar bear isn't a done deal yet, but at least the wheels are turning.