Discuss: Polar Bear

This creature, without wanting too, has become the symbol of our efforts to combat global climate change; whether we can battle the changes or not, this Bear will be our “yard stick” as to our successes or failures…  I have travelled to many places and seen bears from the American Black Bear to the Coastal Brown Bears of Katmai, the Brown Bears of Denali to the Plains Brown Bears of the Montana Front Range.  This year I will trek to Churchill with Dr. Charles Jonkel (Great Bear Foundation) to see the Great Ice Bear.  I have a distinct feeling that this will be my one and only opportunity to see the Polar Bear, I must say that regardless of my thoughts on how well we will/will not battle climate change I believe that the great Ice Bears days are unfortunately numbered…..

I have been trying to figure out what will happen to the Polar Bear??Should we give up?? The lack of discussion re environmental issues in the “Elections” is not very encouraging..Jean

I appeared in my polar bear costume at a press conference held by (my)Oklahoma Sen James Inhofe..He was friendly,but stated that Polar Bears are overpopulated..Lots of people believe him .It would great if he could be defeated!!!! Jean

yes it is sad that the polae bear is suffering for our mistakes. but there is no way to stop climate change. its going to happen. millions of years ago idaho and the midwest was a giant lake, and because of climate change the lake dryed up and left us with rich mineral soil. and until we can learn to live sustainibly climate change and global warming are going to come a lot quicker.

I am really gonna miss the polar bears so keep trying don’t give up. Think about it if the polar bears go extinct your children’s children’s children’s will ask “what is a polar bear?” DO YOU REALLY WANT THAT TO HAPPEN? Keep trying please for the sake of humanty.

if nobody tries then you’re all failures, my family is trying to limit all things that give off gas and trying to go veg..we arereally into it you all have to do something! and the polar bears days will not be numbered if we keep trying as a nation!

by gas I mean gasoline

I believe we can do something to save the Polar Bear, right now I’m not confident enough to be sure we can.  Our family too is doing all that we can to limit our carbon foot-print but getting that message out to other folks is not easy when so many don’t care about limiting their use of resources and so many will never see a Polar Bear in its own environment.  As Americans we should be leading the World on how to combat climate change but our current Administration has no interest at all because doing something means affecting the shareholders bottom line….  So as a general consequence of our nation’s inaction we are losing the battle and that does not reflect well for us, when are we going to learn that its ONE world not many different worlds and that EVERYTHING is inextricably linked!