LoneStarMadam wrote:20 t0 25k polar bears are in existance, doesn't sound to me like they need to be on the endangered list.
Millions of unborn babies have been killed & we should worry about bears?
Perhaps you would like to be placed on a small piece of floating ice knowing that you will soon perish.
Keep in mind that the survival of the bear means the survival of other creatures as well. Including you. Let me simplify this for you, LSM. If the polar bear becomes extinct, then the items which it has fed off of for years are given a different status in the ecosystem. A fish for example might begin to have a greater survival rate and increase in numbers. This seems all good and well until you stop and ask yourself what that fish eats. Let's say the fish eats only vegetation found within the ocean. Here we have a major dilemma. The ice has melted and the ocean's temperature and salinity have been altered. The plant life which had thrived before, no longer can. What little is left is devoured by the hungry fish. Soon the fish face starvation. The fish die and soon cover the ocean surface. Hungry birds feast on them unaware of the bacteria which has settled into the fish as they lay in the blistering sun (blistering due to mankinds (what an oxymoron that is...man-kind...HA!) wanton greed and waste and stupidity which have helped elevate the earth's temperature. Disease adores warmth. So, the birds eat the fish and Pfft! they too perish. The land vegetation which they once ate, thrives for a while but it begins to choke in its excessiveness. Perhaps the items the birds ate on the land now choke out the wheat crops which mankind had used and taken for granted. Perhaps all these changes create strains of disease which infest plant life across the planet. As plants die, animals die and guess what else happens LSM? Yup that's right. People die. Why? All because persons such as yourself saw no reason to preserve and protect a polar bear.
But don't despair, it is not too late. Step forward now and get involved in protecting the bears. Your future may well depend upon them.