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Old 12-08-2008

Have read allot recently about the North Pole. Given that it seems only a matter of time before the ice melts.

Is it naive to suggest that we transfer Polar Bears to the South Pole?
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Do you realy believe there will not be enough ice for polar bears to survive where they have for thousands of years. The earth has been through warm spells before and polar bears survived. I have heard a couple of reports this year of ships needing to be rescued by icebreakers after being told that there was no ice in those areas due to global warming.

I think polar bears would like the antartic until they ate ALL the penguins. Imagine a polar bear in a King penguin rookerie.
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Hasn't anyone seen those Coca-Cola commericals with dancing penguins and polar bears sipping soda drinks? There already are bears at the South Pole...hahaha.
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Polar bears on the south pole would wipe out the penguin population in just a few years
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Polar bears on the south pole would wipe out the penguin population in just a few years
Okay besides the penguins! It was a good idea ;]


R there no penguins at the North Pole?
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No the Polar bears ate them all.
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No the Polar bears ate them all.
LOL Okay so we leave the polar bears there!
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There is no penguins at the north pole though peguins do live in Warm climates such as the galapogas and South Africa,
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There is no penguins at the north pole though peguins do live in Warm climates such as the galapogas and South Africa,
Don't forget about penguins in Chile.

anyways...

I agree with Monty, earth has been gone through a lot of problems before. I think we should worry once the population goes under 50,000 bears.
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Yes its very fortunate that the polar bear population is doing very well,
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Okay so the Polar Bear problem is not going to be that easy to fix.

We seem to live on this planet and only work towards problems in a reactive way. I think its time to be proactive.

The polar ice caps are melting the oceans are rising. The air polloution that is coming out of countries like India and China. Is actually increasing!

There is no easy soloution to this problem. I do belive however the time to address the issues is now. Not when we only have 50,000 polar bears.
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Yes, the ice caps are melting which is very unfortunate but fortunately hunting is extremly rare these days, which has made the population grow over the last few years, but over the next decades or so the population might go because of us destroying their home,
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