Polar Bears Eating Each Other Because of Global Warming Shifts

Right wing activists tend to listen best when things are phrased in terms of morality, so I’ll try to phrase this in terms of moral language: Global warming is creating evil, cannibal polar bears!

Okay, I can’t keep it up. Polar bears are amoral creatures. When they’re starving, they’re try anything to eat, and I don’t suspect that matters of right and wrong occur to them about it.

Nonetheless, they are turning into cannibals, and global warming is to blame. Polar bears ordinarily hunt seals, but seals reproduce on pack ice, which, due to the warming of the Arctic Ocean, is being reduced and is breaking up earlier. That means fewer seals, and less food for the polar bears. Scientists have found that, as a result, some of the largest male polar bears, desperate for food, have taken to hunting down and eating smaller polar bears.

Ecologists will tell you that the health of an ecosystem is often demonstrated in the health of its top predators. So, things aren’t looking good in the Arctic. Will the rest of the world go unaffected? Don’t bet on it.

What scientists warned us about years ago, and the Republicans told you would never happen, is starting to occur. It is long past time to stop listening to the Republicans, and take care of the business of reforming our dirty industrial culture.

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