Practical environmentalism perhaps?Follow

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So here is the scenario: the northern ice cap is melting fast and it's leaving behind a lot of open water and a lot of very big, very hungry, bears. Nobody expects this situation to get better anytime soon, most would tell you its aiming to get far worse. Bears far from civilization likely just starve to death, those closer to town start to become a danger as they get desperate for food. Neither is really something people want, especially the second one.

That brings up the question what do you do about it? Well you can relocate the bears further north. That would certainly work for a while, but there isn't much 'north' left. You can put the animals in zoos, but there's only so much room. Then there's the idea of airlifting food to the bears. Expensive perhaps, but it might be one of the more practical options on the table. Do we really want to feed the bears, making them at least partially dependent on us? They have similar programs down here for dear and other wildlife, IIRC. Is it really worth spending money to save something that would just eat you given half a chance?



Questions for our time I suppose.

Edited, Feb 20th 2013 9:11am by someproteinguy

Dye their coats and let them mingle with other breeds, much like a 40+ woman at a bar.

I suppose the unfortunate answer is to let "nature" take its course. It's not as though anyone is going to be feeding bears via airlift for the next fifty years and doing so wouldn't be natural anyway.

I would assume that the bears would naturally move north in whatever numbers as the terrain and food supply allows without us giving them bindles and packing them into boxcars.

Rather than move them north, move them south. Not Antarctica south, just down into the Carolinas or Miami or something. Provided they have food, I'm sure they'll be happy.

Yellowstone would guarantee them a steady supply of picnic baskets.

Yup.

Don't know really anything more than that though, but they happen from time to time and people claim they've been happening more as of late.

Preserve their DNA and eggs and stuff, stick it in deep freeze in a seed bank, and wait 10,000 years for the next ice age.

If humans are still around then we can probably bring them back at that point, too.

Life, ah, finds a way.

Since Samuel L. Jackson has to be there you can call the movie "Bears on a Tear".

Wearing an afro.

More worrisome is when the Inuit are forced south and begin breeding with Mexicans.

I'm sure we can work in some kind of a Kiss From a Rose/gardener joke somehow, but it's past my bedtime and I'm not seeing it.

One of the really really rich people needs to build them an artificial iceberg with some big *** air conditioners.