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Originally Posted by emkay
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The polar ice caps are melting at a much faster rate than scientists predicted. This summer there was even a shipping passage through the arctic. How do we react? By fighting over rights to exploit the place for oil and gas...
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Even worse. James bay is usually frozen quite late in the season. This year it almost didn't freeze. Usually seals use the ice as a birthing ground and this year, not a single pup was born. Polar bears that feed on the pups were seen swimming aimlessly 150 kilometers out to drown.
At the south pole a chunk of ice hundreds of square kilometers, still for eons, was seen detatching and cracking up to melting somewhere else. Quite disturbing!
This is factual observation. Causes can be up for debate but it happened and is part of a trend. To me this is the little warning light that tells me to take the foot of the gas, stop and seek an other way of moving about.
How can so many people sleep through this? Is the virtuality in our lives that strong?