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[momsalive1]

I just had a nice long chat with my oldest friend in the world - we've known each other since eight grade. She is a wildlife biologist, and always has something interesting to tell me. We talked about polar bears - a topic I have avoided learning about because it is just so depressing to think of losing them. She assured me the situation is quite bad and sent me this site. You can see the story in a nutshell in the map - scroll down a bit. It shows the distribution of the 20 populations of bears, the extent of ice in 2003 and the predicted extent of ice in about 2075. They can't live without the ice.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/polarbear/nat-hist.html

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[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I can't even bear to think about the polar bears, it's so awful. And the worst of it is, I think it may be too late. It's not as if we can reverse global warming on a dime.

[momsalive1]

**nods** It seems like it happended so fast - by the time those of us in the general public learned about it, it was all over. I know there must be a lot of consequences that are like this, but I usually think of situations like the coastal flooding and its impact on people, who can just move. Bad, but not irreparable.

[ffiondove.livejournal.com]

It's so tragic - these are such beautiful and unique animals.

[msb66.livejournal.com]

With deforestation and destruction of habitat by mankind at least we have a chance of halting it - or at least reducing it. With global warming - no chance. And we are all responsible for that (all of us rich enough to be sitting at computer screens and therefore owning cars, wasteful heating systems, producing tons of waste, blah blah).

OK - not a cheery thought for a Saturday morning...