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The last moments of a Polar Bear, another global warming victim
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If you can read the tittle and not cry you are tough. A photojournalist on Baffin Island in Northern Canada captured the last moments of a Polar Bear who starved to death. It is heartbreaking and worse we know we are to blame.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/starving-...-1.3714244

This article contains the video. Even if they had the means to feed him, it was already too late.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...-land.html

If we don't act on climate change this will be the fate of thousands of bears.
As the sea ice fails to form they will have a harder and harder time finding enough food. They are adapted to feeding from the ice. 

It won't help the situation if they actually drill for oil in the arctic. We should be looking for sustainable forms of energy. 
We live on a planet where the wind blows and the sun shines and both are a good source of energy. 
Why are we not researching ways to use these forms of energy instead of drilling for oil.

The death of one Polar Bear by starvation is one too many.
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Catherine

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#2
It is very sad. We have to take notice when things like this happen. That is too much suffering for one Bear, but there are many others suffering.
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#3
Instead of the beautiful Polar Bear on an iceberg, this needs to be the new face of global warming. 
This is what it actually means for Polar Bears if the planet keeps getting warmer.

We need to STOP TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AS IF IT WERE A NICE THING!

It is actually catastrophic climate change that leads to scenes like a bear starving to death.
We need photojournalists to document the damage and we need artists to literally paint a picture of what it means. 
They could computer generate images of coastlines faced with rising sea levels. Most people can't picture what it means.
If the sea level is higher is the ground water contaminated with salt further inland. Does that reduce the arable land around the globe?

That bear represents a lot of changes that are not good for us and they are not good for the planet.
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Catherine

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#4
Humans, and only humans, are to blame for this suffering of polar bears and also for the grave consequences world-wide. We claim that we are intelligent, but I'm not so sure....
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#5
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.
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Catherine

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