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Very sad

but this is not the first animal we have lost, mankind has ruined a lot of animals and environment. We try to help but are doing further damage. To change the world we have to change everyone and how are you going to change the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. People are so used to this easy life of wasting food, electricity, water that we can never change and save the world. Very Sad Passion.

posted by 8-ball on September 18, 2006 at 6:42 PM | link to this | reply

I still haven't seen that movie Pat, but I need to-

posted by Passionflower on September 18, 2006 at 10:07 AM | link to this | reply

Polar bears drowning is the very least of it.

Think beach communities and whole islands under water. Coastal regions permanently flooded. Death Valley becomes a lake again. Mold, fungus, tidal waves. Maybe Al Gore knows his stuff after all.

posted by Pat_B on September 18, 2006 at 8:52 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks Strickgold...

posted by Passionflower on September 17, 2006 at 5:15 PM | link to this | reply

It is sad

posted by StrickGold on September 17, 2006 at 2:43 PM | link to this | reply

Wow Schatz...that was very profound...

Didn't realize you had such deep thoughts. I can see that you understand my role here. I have no choice except to be the voice of the earth and speak out as loudly as possible for humans to take more care.

The humans believe themselves to be invincible, everlasting, but nothing could be further from the truth. The earth will spew them out unless they change their ways.

Still, I know that it's imperative that we not become so embroiled in this tragedy that we forget to live our lives and rejoice in what there is left of our lives here. That would be a worse tragedy.

posted by Passionflower on September 17, 2006 at 11:49 AM | link to this | reply

Maybe I am just a nut but I believe there is a plan for everything.

We all play our part. Unfortunately, the part of many wondrous animals seems focused on teaching us bipeds that they aren't disposable or replicable. But what I'm driving at is that they are fulfilling their destiny; we, ours. Whose is prettier? Whose is more noble? Whose is more natural?

I feel like I am often alone in a sea teeming with people who feel so powerful, and therefore responsible, while I feel I am supposed to observe, act and love according to a set of laws most are ignorant exist. We are not responsible for everything that happens on this planet, Passion. We can only do what we can do. If it consumes you to help people, if you become so completely depressed and mired down in global warming and hunger, is it wrong that you have no joy for yourself? Or is it the way it is? Are you in need of rescuing? Or am I in need of enlightenment?

I do what I can, you do what you can. But our messages are worlds apart. Are you more right than me? Do you condemn me? I don't think so. I try not to 'save you'. I really try only to see you. I feel that in seeing you in the most multifaceted reality this computer can give me, I am fleshing you out in real life, and keeping you from being carried out to sea. We make things real.

posted by Schatz on September 17, 2006 at 11:38 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Maggie...I do think the humans won't survive much longer.

I've been depressed and stressed this week. How have you been?

posted by Passionflower on September 17, 2006 at 9:02 AM | link to this | reply

Taps...I know that -

Tell the rest of the population...because FOR SOME PECULIAR REASON, humans do not realize that THEY are also on the endangered list.

I'm ready to go though...are you? My life has been like King Soloman said:

"Just a few days of trouble."

posted by Passionflower on September 17, 2006 at 9:01 AM | link to this | reply

Passionflower, Cry not for the polar bear, cry for us.  As go the polar bears, so go we.

posted by TAPS. on September 17, 2006 at 8:44 AM | link to this | reply

How sad and scarey that it's come to this, Passion.  Will this be the cause for our leaving this world?  It's certainly is something to think about, or not! 

How are you doing? 

posted by MaggieMae on September 17, 2006 at 5:23 AM | link to this | reply

(A)- Don't think we'll have to worry about that -

The methane gas will become prevalent enough in our atmosphere that people will begin to die soon....the weak, old, kids, etc. go first.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 3:19 PM | link to this | reply

Artifact...I'll bet those are some really gorgeous

Fields of Flowers....but Antarctica was never meant to be GREEN.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 3:13 PM | link to this | reply

The sea levels are rising. One day, we might be missing a few islands from the map.

(A)

posted by A-and-B on September 16, 2006 at 3:08 PM | link to this | reply

How said, Passion!

This is awful.  More results of global warming.  I remember reading that they have found beautiful fields of flowers growing in Antarctica. 

But that's not our fault.  Nope.  So why should we do anything about it? 

posted by Artifact on September 16, 2006 at 2:52 PM | link to this | reply

Cringe...I understand what your daughter is going thru....

Some of  us seem to be much more solidly linked to the planet and its environment. It does actually "Affect" me to see waste, pollution, the destruction of the rain forests, etc.

We can't seem to help it. When the trees and rivers, oceans, atmosphere, etc are damaged, it hurts us.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 1:46 PM | link to this | reply

Crap PF, my daughter freaks when she watches shows on global warming

and weather phenomenon, she gets very down, now I'll feel like a liar reassuring her it's not going to happen in her lifetime.

posted by Cringe on September 16, 2006 at 1:31 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks for sharing about your local climate changes, Cringe...

As I told Tanga below, original predictions are wrong. Some of these awful things will happen within the next 10 years.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 1:23 PM | link to this | reply

PF, I read this today, and tried to find the back issues of the Sunday

Times supplement with all the pictures of the differences between 'then' and 'now' of varying places, can't remember but one would've been a glacier in the '70's and it showed massive deteoration that can only be attributed to global warming.

Look, I've noticed it myself.  When I was a kid, we used to have snowfalls in Ireland that'd keep your wellies stuck in the snow.  My daughter is 11, and has only witnessed 3 snowfalls that stayed on the ground, the most of a couple of inches, in her lifetime.  We have witnessed excessive flooding and mudslides here over the last 10 years in particular, that rarely happened.  Lastly, our summers are more temperate, more rain, less dry spells.

Polar bears are not the only casualties, penguins also, and so it will continue until it's us, scary thought, hope me & mine are ashes by that time.

posted by Cringe on September 16, 2006 at 1:21 PM | link to this | reply

Tanga...the latest research says that

We will see the consequences much sooner than that. The original predictions did not take into account the fact that once the snow and ice begins to melt (which has already happened), it causes itself to melt at ever-increasing rates.

Like an out-of-control train, the further it goes, the more it speeds up.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 1:14 PM | link to this | reply

Steeler...we've got to stop polluting the air.

Global warming is caused by all those exhaust fumes from our cars, from factories, industrialization has caused this.

We're just now realizing how serious it is, but some scientists don't think it can be reversed...only slowed.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 1:11 PM | link to this | reply

LostinLife...you can check back on my blogs

And find links to all kinds of articles from Anchorage and Switzerland.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 1:08 PM | link to this | reply

That is very sad news indeed...what can we do to change it?

I wish I had an answer.

posted by steeler_fan on September 16, 2006 at 12:36 PM | link to this | reply

I also read that

wild polar bears will be extinct in the next 30 to 50 years. That is too soon for comfort. Which species next? Man maybe

posted by Tanga on September 16, 2006 at 12:08 PM | link to this | reply

Wow...poor bears. Did you know that they aren't really white? really.

posted by shelly_b on September 16, 2006 at 10:21 AM | link to this | reply

Wow..

I'm going to have to do some research on that. That is quite facinating!

posted by LostInLife on September 16, 2006 at 10:09 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks Madem....I just read a new article on Yahoo News...

The LINK is there. I really need to see the Al Gore movie...but I'm such an environmentalist that I'll probably cry thru the whole thing.

PS-Your pink text is funny. We need a few Mark Twains these days.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 10:04 AM | link to this | reply

It's not too late (according to Al Gore) ... though, it soon will be.

We have about ten years.

And, the polar bear drowning thing was in "An Inconvenient Truth".

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
~ Mark Twain

posted by Mademoiselle on September 16, 2006 at 9:58 AM | link to this | reply

You're exactly right Warrior...Scientists don't believe that we

Can fully STOP the snow and ice from melting...all we can do is slow it down. It's too late to save our planet. How sad! It was once a lovely place.

posted by Passionflower on September 16, 2006 at 9:48 AM | link to this | reply

That sucks. And worse, the so called "wake up call" may be too late

We should have woke up decades ago.

posted by SuccessWarrior on September 16, 2006 at 9:45 AM | link to this | reply