The last moments of a Polar Bear, another global warming victim

[Catherine]

Sadly  humans are not that bright. I find many people are unable to make connections between actions and consequences. 
We do it in our own personal lives. People eat unhealthy food and wonder why they are unhealthy. They don't  see the connection between diet and health.

We do it on a planet level. We do unhealthy things to the planet and wonder why the planet is unhealthy. We have massive hurricanes and we do not connect them to global warming. Every time a natural disaster happens we act surprized. Next year during hurricane season we will act surprized all over again. We don't connect the high tidal surges to rising sea levels, to melting ice caps and starving polar bears. There are connections on a global level to many things we do. Burning rain forests so we can have palm plantations and drawing millions of gallons of water from an area to sell as bottled water are all part of a complex interaction of events on the planet.  These actions all have a negative impact and it is cumulative. We are starting to see the results and they are not good. The dying polar bear is a symptom of an unhealthy planet. He is our canary in the coal mine. 
We need to act soon because the consequences will be worse over time. 

There are still people who do not believe in climate change and global warming. They are foolish enough to think that it matters whether they believe or not. You are right we are not much of an intelligent species.