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  Sadly humans don’t care
context: There it is again that funny feeling. >
  
  Man I hate that feeling >
  
  I wonder when we will speak of them in thr past tense, like other extinct animals in our lifetimes. I wonder when we will be in the past tense. >
  
  I think it would be more like pandas, no longer naturally occurring but they would still exist in zoos >
  
  Pandas seem to be trying to genocide themselves. They went from eating high calorie meat to one of the least nutritious plants out there. They sleep more than cats because they get no energy from bamboo. Females are in heat a max of 3 days out of the year. and they dont live with mates or a group, so the male has to find them during those 3 days, if he even cares about having sex which often they dont seem to. AND if she chooses him, and shes picky as hell and tends to not like anyone new doesnt matter if he is more healthy, she wants to get to know them first. And then tends to have only one cub. Well tend to birth two but one almost always dies.
  Its baffling pandas are still around for us to talk about. them sloths and sunfish, just seem to be begging for extinction to take them. >
  
  How could you! >
  
  Has anyone been able to find the actual govt study? >
  
  It isn't a government study, done by academics. The only link I can find is behind a paywall, but here is the info if you want to Google it. If you can find it somewhere for free please post the link.
  Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence
  Péter K. Molnár, Cecilia M. Bitz, Marika M. Holland, Jennifer E. Kay, Stephanie R. Penk & Steven C. Amstrup
  Nature Climate Change volume 10 >
  
  They said this would happen. But science isn’t real, amirite? >
  
  The thoughts of some idiots i know:
  1) Global warming isn’t real
  2) Even if earth is heating, it is just a natural heat cycle
  3) Even if its not a natural heat cycle, our country changing anything won’t do anything.
  There is a special kind of mind out there that is capable of discounting reality. >
  
  My dad passive aggressively says shit like this all the time.  I had a text exchange with him on Christmas day and he casually brings up that where my sister in-law lives just had record breaking cold and of course he throws in the "but Global warming right?!? LMAO"  I really tried not to bite, but I couldn't help it.  Mentioning that climate change is not just about warming in addition to the fact that it's a slow inexorable process doesn't phase him.  "They've been talking about rising ocean levels for 40 years but I haven't seen any difference.  Funny how they never talk about the scientific theories that contradict global warming."  He usually then proceeds to blame Democratic environmental policies and calls it a sham.  I just kind of try and avoid any political discussions because it is impossible to make any headway. >
  
  Start linking him articles about people dealing with sea level rise and other effects of climate change. They were indoctrinated through repetition. The only way we can hope to beat lies (besides stopping the liars) is to literally use the truth as a cudgel and beat the information into their heads. 
  Or national level cult deprogramming. But we're never getting that. >
  
  On one hand, we have to accept that species go extinct naturally, even if climate change is human induced this time. On the other, humans have all but stopped natural evolution in larger lifeforms. There will be no animals evolving to replace those that die off this time. >
  
  Yes, species go extinct naturally, but at a very slow rate. 
  On average a new species of animal lasts for several million years.
  The rate of extinction on planet Earth right now is thousands or tens of thousands of times higher than normal. >
  
  Yes, I didn't deny any of that. I said what is worse is that they won't get replaced because we've stopped the processes of natural evolution in most species larger than bugs. Evolution has become an anthropogenic process. Worse still, you could probably say it's a capitalistic process where the survival of species is determined by worth and productivity. >
  
  In other words, if you're an animal you'd better be either cute or beneficial to human agriculture or you're fucked. >
  
  All the snow crabs are gone too. Not to mention it hit over 100 degrees there this summer. The Arctic is getting fucked up this year. >
  
  I've heard a few theories about it. They died due to the warming, and their population crashed as a result. They fled into deeper waters and were just missed. The Russians and or Chinese overharvested them to extinction. Maybe all three, or none of the three. >
  
  Tracking by fish and wildlife groups suggests overfishing is not the problem at all. The best guesses are they migrated quite far from where they usually are or there was a mass die off event. Experts seem to be leaning toward the latter. They're not sure if it's directly related to warming ocean temperatures, if it was an infection or what, but that's where they've landed. >
  
  Why can't we just put a bunch of fake floating ice for them to rest on? >
  
  And we could provide plant based seal meat for the polar bears on the big chunks of plastic that we put into the ocean. It’s a foolproof plan >
  
  Yea, once somebody figures out how to make food outta plastic.
  But then big food kills off the process by seeing them into oblivion or..... >
  
  It's wild that for my entire life, we've been saying they're dying off. Every single year, there's news like this. If we were going to help them, we would've already. They're not going to make it. >
  
  I have family who live in northern Quebec - winter hasn’t really happened yet - literally two months late and counting in their region. It’s kind of frightening. >
  
  Let's just go full ABC island bears with it an get em some brown bears to bang so their genetics get preserved for the future and they hopefully breed back. >
  
  So basically grizzlies, but even more massive
  Well I'm terrified