Sadly, there are no old age homes for polar bears. Maybe Greenpeace can get on that instead of Bitcoin's energy usage.
I was trying to highlight the barren-wasteland background. Not sure if anyone remembers where polar bears are supposed to live but its not supposed to be a desert dried out from man-made climate change. (although maybe someone set him lose in a foreign habitat for shits and giggles?
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But the best place for an old bear to die is in his icy habitat. At least he will die happy...
1.7 million years. Thats how long the (newest) polar ice caps have been around. Then came the Industrial Revolution. ~200 years later, here we are. The fact that there are people who still think the ancient Arctic sea ice melting at a rate of ~13% per decade is somehow a natural event is sad.
Now the ice is going to melt before 2100 regardless of how hard we cut back on emissions. But whatever, fuck it. I loved Waterworld.
The temperature on Antartica has gone down by 0,22 C for the last three decades, the sea is not raising more than it usually does and has been doing since measurments started, according to University of Lund, The climate of Scandinavia was about two degrees c hotter during the stone and bronze ages than it is now, there was pelicans in southern Sweden, and about one degree hotter during the viking age, we are not in "burning up" mode, we are freezing compared to the first 8000 years or so after the ice receded. And so on, reality is not playing ball I'm afraid.
Edit: were pelicans? I'm always unsure about was/were.
