When I read this article, I knew very well what it was about. Who hasn’t seen the film Earth? The warming of the Earth is causing the polar bears to slowly go extinct. This process is almost certainly caused by us humans. We are polluting the world and making it not only inhospitable for ourselves in the long run, but also for the animals we share this delicate place with. The polar bears are not the first ones to perish by our hands and certainly not the last, but since it has been on the telly, we flock to nature-drama documentaries to know more about it.
We are all calamity tourists on a global scale. We act as if we care, but most of us don’t or not enough. We do care enough to feel sad about the cute bears for a moment, but do we do anything structural to prevent global warming? No, we don’t.
And then there are people who are even worse. These people want to see the drama with their own eyes. They feel sorry for the critters and think they are helping the bears by really seeing them in the wild. They go to this remote village to see the struggling bears with their own eyes. The bears come here to eat and to survive, but that is becoming more and more a problem now that the world is warming up. The big buggies move in between the bears and the people in the buggies pray on the bears like vultures on a almost dead animal in a desert. I find this very distasteful.
Though the writer doesn’t think there is something wrong with people coming to watch the animals and experiencing firsthand the effects of global warming, I think that these people should spend there money on fundraising and stop ruining the environment and habitat of the polar bear by flying to this village to see a starving species. Why don’t these people put there money where there mouth is. Why don’t they make this world a cooler place and a better habitat for the polar bears and eventually maybe for ourselves…
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