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Can you name some predictions of what might happen to the polor bears in 10years?

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Will they all die?Have you seen how much ice is melted each year becuase of motor vehicles heating up the air?

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  1. i hope im very,very wrong but i think if people don't change soon,the polar bears along with many animals will dissappear.


  2. They will adapt and thrive.  Bears generally do.

  3. i don't want to think about it :('''''

  4. You - "What's troubling Gus? (The Polar Bear from Central Park)"

    Me - "It's that nothing goes quiet." or "No one is afraid enough."

    just the old ones ready to die and the ones affected by humans will die. the others will have lives. some will be affected directly from humans, others will be indirectly affected by humans. if we don't change our consumptive ways and try to cure this disease of capitalism, we will likely threaten all species on the planet, including our own. It's not just the motor vehicles causing the problems. Capitalism itself is causing us to rape our land for rocks and minerals, harvest the land to death and saturating it with chemicals. We pull from the earth the decomposed remains of pre-historic life and use it to fuel our consumption machine. Strangely enough, It's the captured energy of the extinct plants through their chlorophyll. Meanwhile we burn this oil and cut down the trees and plants that can capture the carbon dioxode; that can makes us live. Through this we are bringing ourselves closer to extinction.  We still, by large, believe that we are rulers of this planet and not inhabitants as the rest of life. We must change.  The social problems of the world are largely attributed to capitalism as it affects us; alienation from ourself, each other and from community.  Just think about the machine called "money".  It's not a real, tangible thing anymore.  It's become the drive for life.. money to spend, money to make, money to live. But deeper, money depends on a much more sinister thing... hoarding of Earth's materials.  Capitalism is one reason that some people have everything and others have nothing.  One characteristic of capitalism is that it depends greatly on the oppression of many for the betterment of a few.  We don't have foreign trade because governments and corporations want to give you pineapples or other exotic products. We have foreign trade because someone makes big bucks in the transfer of products from one place to another. Big bucks because, by owning the land they own the fruits of its labour. By soaking up the nutrients from the soil like a sponge they destroy the bacteria and microorganisms. They replace this with chemical fertilizers, and fend of critters with chemical pesticides.  The chemicals go into the ground, travel down into the water tables or leach out into streams, rivers, lakes.  Industrial pollution is caused by our want of excess. We are much better off forming smaller communities and living more local lives.  We can do this, the planet is big enough for us... if we live within certain means. anyway enough ramblings.

  5. They will have died out due to global warming.

  6. actually, not true.

    The World Conservation Union listed polar bears as a vulnerable species, one of three sub-categories of threatened status, in May 2006.[50] Their latest estimate is that 7 out of 19 subpopulations are declining or already severely reduced.[7] The United States Geological Survey forecasts that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will disappear by 2050, based on moderate projections for the shrinking of summer sea ice caused by global warming.[4] The bears would disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Arctic archipelago of Canada and areas off the northern Greenland coast. By 2080 they would disappear from Greenland entirely and from the northern Canadian coast, leaving only dwindling numbers in the interior Arctic archipelago.[4]

    Global warming has already had an impact on polar bear population health and size. Recent declines in polar bear numbers can be linked to the retreat of sea ice and its formation later in the year. Ice is also breaking up earlier in the year, forcing bears ashore before they have time to build up sufficient fat stores, or forcing them to swim long distances, which may exhaust them, leading to drowning.[41] The results of these effects of global warming have been thinner, stressed bears, decreased reproduction, and lower juvenile survival rates. [51]

    straight off wikipedia.

    global warming isn't just transporation. you can wiki that one too for some quick facts.

  7. Polar Bear's Lives depend on food, warmth and oxygen levels(abiotic factors) so if the polar bear does not eat enough fish, it will die. If the global warming increases, and there is not enough cold outside, there are 60% chances that it would die. It also depends on how stronger the polar bear is because the weak ones die because of the stronger ones kill them or they are not able to suite to their adaptations. Basically, these are the main reasons how a polar bear would die.

  8. u should ask this question to polar bears themseves that what do they think and plan  in for next 10 or20 years.

  9. Live here for a while and find out

    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

  10. In many magazines, and tv shows I see them and their environments ALL of them say that if we don't do something soon they WILL be GONE in 10 years.

  11. OK, first off, no one can know for sure what is going to happen. Second, the overall population of polar bears is stable (the number of polar bears living in warmer areas of the Arctic are growing). Ice ALWAYS melts, and polar bears always cope with it. They can swim very well (for miles, if necessary) and they don't even need to live on the floating sea ice. They could adapt to live on land (and probably have before, as it has been MUCH warmer in the past than it is today).

    You don't need to worry about the polar bears. They'll be fine.

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