SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Oh Well. It's not Like They're Cuddly.
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Dear Twinkle_Pixie1968, Year of the Rock Anthem,
While I cannot speak for Barba or, as we say here informally, "goatboy," I can say that we have the utmost respect for the natural environment and Madonna Nature here at Phronesisaical, and say our daily prayers to Jimi Hendrix who is, as you will know, also a part of Mother Earth. Alas,... except for goatboy who's paying off bad karma as we speak by living out this life as goatboy, while in his previous life he was Charlemagne.
How would you like to be goatboy? The food is terrible and the flies are bad. I would think the last thing that would worry you is the cuddleability of polar bears. Please say you're sorry to goatboy.
When people can see that you have a long beard and little round glasses, it's easy to get lazy about signaling irony. Here in South Texas, where people generally have a difficult time processing verbal irony, one often hears speakers affixing a throaty, gagging sound, tongue all out, to indicate they've said something unserious. I'd officially like to affix that noise--yaaaaannnchhh--to this post.
Mystic -- you're right, that was a sarcastic comment. I have a congenital problem with this and will check myself into a clinic (more sarcasm! you see?).
Barba posted this because of the lack of real action over global warming. When you look at effects "on the ground" you see such things as dying polar bears and melting glaciers. "Charismatic mega-fauna" often get people to act, but in this case not even that seems to work. Happy motoring nation. If you're a Gaiaist you ought to be able to see the bigger picture....
If you're sincere about your environmental beliefs, you should browse the site and look at some of the other posts on environmental issues to get a picture of how we think about the natural environment. Non-human species are part of the equation.
Flaco, on the other hand, was just being an ass. I don't know what's wrong with that boy.
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