Earlier this week, I heard on the radio that there was a conference held somewhere to discuss whether or not to consider polar bears as an endangered species. NPR played a short clip of a woman who got up to speak. She actually said that she wasn't sure whether or not polar bears will die if the ice caps and glaciers all melted. It's not definitive if their livelihood depends on the ice not melting. Apparently, I and others who think like me are wrong in believing that global warming is an indirect/direct cause of glaciers melting which in turn will endanger the polar bears. It's a slippery slope I'm sitting on (not unlike one of the ones polar bears would sit on if the ice doesn't all melt away). We've recognized the dangers of global warming. We know that polar bears live in very cold weather and make their homes on ice. We know ice melts in warmer climates.
Help me out, folks. What am I missing here...?
There must be other places that polar bears can live. Perhaps they'll live in the rainforest.
Oops, those are gone too. Maybe the polar bears will just migrate to the nearest Irish pub, buy Irish coffees and debate whether or not global warming should be a world wide concern.
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