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[its_ender]

Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinksThis past summer, the Arctic sea ice dwindled to its second lowest level. Arctic sea ice is usually 1 to 3 meters, or as much as 9 feet thick. It grows during autumn and winter and shrinks in the spring and summer

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[theh]

That's so sad! :(

[amateur_photog]

I am in tears over this. It is so devastating. I hate this fucking world.

[selke]

OM NOM NOM NOM.

*ahem* Sorry, couldn't resist. That's insane.

[beetlecat]

I'm taking all the polar bear stuff with a grain of salt.

No one really knows their behaviour (males attacking females is not new) and there is still plenty of evidence that they are surviving just fine. It may not be scientific, but I'll take the word of the natives that live and hunt up there, rather than scientists who do neither.

I'm not saying their lives are perfect - there's no denying the ice is shrinking - but I've yet to see compelling evidence that it's quite as bad as people say.

[mokele]

Yes, because annecdote trumps real data.

The actual situation is quite complex, because sea-ice loss is uneven: in some areas it's expanding (near Russia, I think), while in others, the rate of loss is absolutely staggering.

[crackedwraith]

Has to be said:

Polar bears - official badasses.

Don't worry, people. If it's as bad as the scientists are saying, about everything, Mum Nature is going to get very angry and do something about it. 'Cause the planet's a living creature in itself, and it does not like to be messed with.

[seishukuhime]

Well, I'm pretty sure what she's going to do about it is make loads of species (including us) go extinct.

If so, I think we have reason to be worried.

[crackedwraith]

I'd rather us go extinct and make way for something else than us somehow wreck the joint. But then, no one's ever accused me of having much concern for my own race...

[astrum_aka_trup]

yeah... those are the words of a hippie retard wise man
we are so brave when we type in LJ, but when the X day arrives - you will scream for your life and shit your pants like a newborn