The flip side of climate change: a polar bear starving in front of the camera lenses!

For all of us, Polar bears are a typical example of health and strength with its massive bodies and coats of white skin that contain many layers of fat and thick skin. That is why the shock of the veteran National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen and the crew was great when they arrived in the Baffin Islands late last summer as part of a campaign to protect the marine life; to be surprised by the sight of their hearts breaking ... a thin polar bear starving before their eyes!

You can see clearly that the bear is walking with his eyes as he searches for what might block his energy or grant him life another day. His white fur may fall in several places, while his bones stand out as he walks with difficulty; perhaps because he can no longer move his hind legs almost to loosen their spines. We see it as he digs into a plate of trash used by seasonal Eskimo hunters, and when he finds nothing of value, he floats on the ground motionless.

did he die? No one knows exactly; if Nicklin himself thinks he will not live for long. Why did not he save him? Why did not the directing team intervene after filming the scene as I saw it?

Neklin says he portrayed the slow and painful death of this polar bear because he did not want his life to go in vain and everyone knew about the effects of catastrophic climate change on our planet. Scientists say polar bears will be extinct, and that's exactly what happens when it happens ... they will starve to death.

This, of course, is not Nicklin's personal opinion, but rather the outcome of many studies, most recently in 2015 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which classified climate change as the only and most serious threat to polar bears remaining in the world. Only 26 thousand! According to the study's estimates, if it continues as it is now for carbon dioxide emissions and not taking serious steps to reduce the greenhouse effect, polar bear numbers are expected to drop by 30% by 2050 and then completely extinction at a faster pace in years Few.

While warming causes warming of the poles, ocean ice melts earlier in the spring and freezes again in autumn, reversing the natural cycle in summer and winter. Ice is the life of polar bears and other animals there which hits the feeding chain, hunting and cycle bites and breeding in the killing. Thus, with the length of days that the ice is now disappearing in the Arctic, bears are forced to migrate far into environments that increase starvation and reduce their breeding opportunities.

This is very annoying, as you can see, not only to the direct threat that affects polar bears, but to the catastrophic sense that we humans have. Scientists describe polar bears as Canary Canaries, which the miners would accompany with them in the depths as a natural alarm when things got worse. Are we really prepared for the consequences of breaking the cycle of natural life with the extinction of the Canary Arctic? I hope we do not have to look at the answer ourselves one day.