OT Earth

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Lanny]

Mmmm yum yum.
Hey, where have all those Eskimos gone to? Ralph, did you raid that ice box last night?

 

[SheedSoNasty]

That is one of the saddest things I’ve seen.

 

[tlongII]

Polar Bears gotta eat too.

 

[ABM]

 

[ABM]

 

[andalusian]

Is this the new Coca Cola commercial?

 

[jonnyboy]

What’s the context behind that photo? Bears love garbage. We call them trash pandas where I live. They wander off of a mountain with bountiful, ample amounts of sustenance, to dig in the trash for fast food.

 

[tlongII]

What’s the context behind that photo? Bears love garbage. We call them trash pandas where I live. They wander off of a mountain with bountiful, ample amounts of sustenance, to dig in the trash for fast food.

Those are polar bears. They don't live on mountains. The concern is about global climate change ruining their natural habitat of sea ice.

 

[Chris Craig]

Is this the new Coca Cola commercial?

Too bad there aren't coke bottles in there somewhere. Probably are

 

[Chris Craig]

What’s the context behind that photo? Bears love garbage. We call them trash pandas where I live. They wander off of a mountain with bountiful, ample amounts of sustenance, to dig in the trash for fast food.

The context is we are destroying our planet. That's garbage washed up in the artic. These polar bears now are dealing with their homes melting and drowning and now also our trash littering where they live.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We call them trash pandas where I live.

Trash pandas are raccoons.

Learn the panda then post.

 

[ABM]

Trash pandas are raccoons.....

...and a minor league baseball team in Alabama.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

...and a minor league baseball team in Alabama.

 

[ABM]

What’s the context behind that photo? Bears love garbage. We call them trash pandas where I live. They wander off of a mountain with bountiful, ample amounts of sustenance, to dig in the trash for fast food.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tra...d-posts-on-rtrashpandas-are-original-photos-1

Reddit is suddenly obsessed with raccoons, which they have named ‘trash pandas'

 

[jonnyboy]

The context is we are destroying our planet. That's garbage washed up in the artic. These polar bears now are dealing with their homes melting and drowning and now also our trash littering where they live.

That is clearly a landfill where they burn trash. The fact that it attracts bears is not a surprise, billowing clouds of hot garbage will attract even the most picky. I’m not contesting the fact that humans fuck up the planet, but polar bears fucking up trash cans and rummaging through landfills is not a new thing in the world’s northernmost outposts.

 

[riverman]

several small black bear cross my property often in the middle of the night...they've never once knocked over a trash bin but they go straight for my flowering plum trees and eat the leaves like they're crack....often see bear shit around the base of the tree and my neighbor has a night camera that shows 3 of them crossing our property when we're asleep..once in awhile a truck will kill one on the road from the mill. Not long ago the melting ice cause Grizzlies and Polar bears to compete for the same food chain for the first time in history...Polar Bears forced south and Grizzlies migrating further north..read they'd never encounter each other before in history

 

[tlongII]

several small black bear cross my property often in the middle of the night...they've never once knocked over a trash bin but they go straight for my flowering plum trees and eat the leaves like they're crack....often see bear shit around the base of the tree and my neighbor has a night camera that shows 3 of them crossing our property when we're asleep..once in awhile a truck will kill one on the road from the mill. Not long ago the melting ice cause Grizzlies and Polar bears to compete for the same food chain for the first time in history...Polar Bears forced south and Grizzlies migrating further north..read they'd never encounter each other before in history

I don't believe the part about grizzlies encountering polar bears only recently is true. I'm sure it happens more often now, but they have identified cases of where they have interbred for several years now.

 

[riverman]

I don't believe the part about grizzlies encountering polar bears only recently is true. I'm sure it happens more often now, but they have identified cases of where they have interbred for several years now.

I read about in in Natl Geographic...never heard of them interbreeding before..that's news to me.

 

[tlongII]

I read about in in Natl Geographic...never heard of them interbreeding before..that's news to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizz...y–polar bear hybrid,captivity and in the wild.

 

[riverman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid#:~:text=A grizzly–polar bear hybrid,captivity and in the wild.

Interesting but the oldest of these cases was 1990....8 alive are all born in the 2000's so it could still be a relatively new occurance...thanks for the link...I love this stuff. The Growlar bear...go figure!

 

[ABM]

Interesting but the oldest of these cases was 1990....8 alive are all born in the 2000's so it could still be a relatively new occurance...thanks for the link...I love this stuff. The Growlar bear...go figure!

Growler? Did someone say Growler?!

 

[ABM]

Those are polar bears. They don't live on mountains. The concern is about global climate change ruining their natural habitat of sea ice.

I've been much more aware/concerned about global warming over the last few years. That said, this was a significant watch for me. It was filmed from a coral perspective on global (oceans) warming, and the like. Compelling, sometimes emotional, and very eye-opening, I'd recommend this documentary to anyone and everyone.

 

[Lanny]

I've been much more aware/concerned about global warming over the last few years. That said, this was a significant watch for me. It was filmed from a coral perspective on global (oceans) warming, and the like. Compelling, sometimes emotional, and very eye-opening, I'd recommend this documentary to anyone and everyone.

Yes, coral were one of the first warning signs.

 

[ABM]

I've been much more aware/concerned about global warming over the last few years. That said, this was a significant watch for me. It was filmed from a coral perspective on global (oceans) warming, and the like. Compelling, sometimes emotional, and very eye-opening, I'd recommend this documentary to anyone and everyone.

This is next up...

 

[dviss1]

This planet does not need us. It's been here for billions of years and will be after we all kill each other...

 

[ABM]

This planet does not need us...

We need it, though.

 

[dviss1]

We need it, though.

She is going to raze the virus that we are from her surface. And we'll deserve it.

 

[ABM]

She is going to raze the virus that we are from her surface. And we'll deserve it.

It's a mother of a conundrum fer sure.

 

[dviss1]

It's a mother of a conundrum fer sure.

We could fix it but the corporatists don't care. It's not the average human that's doing the overall majority of the destruction.
It's the corporations that are churning out this shit that doesn't biodegrade. Capitalism does this. Anything to increase the profit margin.
Cut corners, create unsafe working conditions, create single use non biodegradable plastics that is in everyone's system as we speak...

It's abhorrent...