You might as well throw in video games since some gaming setups consume more electricity than refrigerators do.I hope everyone stating this is sad considers if their own actions might help. For instance, if you eat meat on a regular basis you're a large contributor to the issue of climate change.
Says muscle atrophy made it impossible to rehab. Even it was going to get fedYou mean to tell me there isn't a zoo somewhere in North America that couldn't rehab and save that polar bear?
Open a GoFundMe account and I guarantee you the money will be there to support it.
Didn't say you were. But that's where you might have been getting some misguided information from, at least indirectly.
On every celestial body we have studied in the heavens, with our limited gaze, we have found no sign of life. No sign of the unique development of the teeming biosphere we see on Earth. Even if life has developed on other world, the Fermi paradox holds true, and we hear no messages from any semblance of intelligent life. With billions of years behind us in the age of our galaxy, we are as isolated in the Great Garden of Time as we are in the vast ocean of space.
All this means that we may actually be the only intelligent stewards of life in the galaxy, at this moment. The only species with the ability to consciously decide whether to preserve each impossibly unique form of life that evolves here, and nowhere else in the galaxy, or to destroy it. Our ultimate destiny, and merit as a species, will depend on the future of our biosphere, because we are choosing that future.
There is no Interstellar, no escape for us. Our destiny here is our Judgment Day. We value this most unique precious gift in the universe, the life around us, or we kill it and die with it. And all the religious visions of Armageddon have the themes right if not the details: if fiery apocalypse comes about, we will have both chosen it and deserve it.
So no big deal, right?While this is a sad picture, that bear could have a cancer, be sick, or previously injured leading to it being unsuccessful at hunting. Barring an autopsy, they have no real way of knowing why it is starving (which, incidentally, is pretty much the fate of ALL wild animals that don't get caught and eaten by something else) so to attribute it to climate change alone is presumptuous. Plus polar bears are really just arctic adapted brown bears, which are in no way endangered, so even if they go extinct due to loss of an arctic habitat the brown bear will probably just expand up into the now warmer and ice-free area, though more likely the polar bears will just interbreed with brown bears and the species will collapse back into one again until such time as the arctic cools again.
My info comes straight from academia. Scientific studies have shown that polar bear populations aren't at an immediate risk.Didn't say you were. But that's where you might have been getting some misguided information from, at least indirectly.
Well, if you are a seal, moose, or some other species fed upon by polar bears, it's pretty good news. One less ravenous monster hunting you down. Perspective....
I'm just saying that this picture is not really indicative of anything unless there was a scientist monitoring this particular bear, documenting that it engaged in normal bear behavior but was persistently unsuccessful in hunting, leading to it's current condition. Or if there were several hundred in this area that all looked the same. But if this an outlier bear in this condition I'm not sure what conclusion you could draw from it. Clearly the arctic is thawing, but polar bears as a species will probably adapt and survive, or just reintegrate into the brown bear population from whence they came originally. From a global sense it really is "no big deal".
Because of expected habitat loss caused by climate change, the polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species, and at least three of the nineteen polar bear subpopulations are currently in decline.[8] However, at least two of the nineteen subpopulations are currently increasing, while another six are considered stable.[9] For decades, large-scale hunting raised international concern for the future of the species, but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect
You have to realize that all it would have done is eased your own suffering :\It may have been way past saving...but this is the sort of situation where I'd say "illegal" probably wouldn't stop me from trying. Obviously you can't go hands on with a creature like that, but maybe a little something put in his path would ease the suffering.
It may have been way past saving...but this is the sort of situation where I'd say "illegal" probably wouldn't stop me from trying. Obviously you can't go hands on with a creature like that, but maybe a little something put in his path would ease the suffering.
While this is a sad picture, that bear could have a cancer, be sick, or previously injured leading to it being unsuccessful at hunting. Barring an autopsy, they have no real way of knowing why it is starving (which, incidentally, is pretty much the fate of ALL wild animals that don't get caught and eaten by something else) so to attribute it to climate change alone is presumptuous. Plus polar bears are really just arctic adapted brown bears, which are in no way endangered, so even if they go extinct due to loss of an arctic habitat the brown bear will probably just expand up into the now warmer and ice-free area, though more likely the polar bears will just interbreed with brown bears and the species will collapse back into one again until such time as the arctic cools again.
Fucking awful. This is what we need to see more of (to make people care)
Ease? more like prolong his suffering givving it more days to live, unless you plan to feed the bear for life
Life, it comes and goes. A rat or snake have died of hunger too. Trapped wasp in a room dies of hunger.
Nature adopts and strives.
Various forms of entertainment serve as an escape from reality, a la bread and circuses.You might as well throw in video games since some gaming setups consume more electricity than refrigerators do.
Real life is too scary and depressing that people prefer to spend time forgetting about reality's problems.
Whether a picture is indicative of something is not required for a photo to be evocative of something.
Your dispassionate Scientism regarding the specific fate of polar bears happens to be taking the piss on the sorrowful sense of future (and present) loss for ecosystems destroyed or impacted by man and man-made climate change, that the photo has evoked in other posters here, who do not require specific evidence that this bear died because of climate change to have those emotions evoked.
Which makes you which: Unintentionally obtuse to the emotionally evocative nature of the photo? Man-made climate change denier? Edgelord?
Well, if you are a seal, moose, or some other species fed upon by polar bears, it's pretty good news. One less ravenous monster hunting you down. Perspective....
I'm just saying that this picture is not really indicative of anything unless there was a scientist monitoring this particular bear, documenting that it engaged in normal bear behavior but was persistently unsuccessful in hunting, leading to it's current condition. Or if there were several hundred in this area that all looked the same. But if this an outlier bear in this condition I'm not sure what conclusion you could draw from it. Clearly the arctic is thawing, but polar bears as a species will probably adapt and survive, or just reintegrate into the brown bear population from whence they came originally. From a global sense it really is "no big deal".
Yeah just reintegrate and adapt you stupid fucking bears, right?
That's not how wildlife works. The slightest changes in global temps can have catastrophic results
No big deal that the great barrier reef is like 50% dead now either right? Coral should learn to like the new temps or something
What are you talking about? That is EXACTLY how wildlife adapts. Polar bears are just an arctic adapted brown bear. There is nothing magical about them. If the arctic changes they will likely just reintegrate into the brown bear population that will expand into the warmer, more hospitable arctic region.
Coral reef dieoffs are an entirely separate conversation, not sure how you made that connection when discussing a starving polar bear.
You really expect the population to survive in this modern pace?
Sure, why wouldn't it? Brown bears are doing fine. I'm sure polar bears can adapt to less ice, just like the seals and other animals they prey on will.