Saturday, August 23, 2008

Long-Distance Swimmers


Yup, that's them. The polar bears whose homes are melting slowly now, as a result of global warming. Recently, I read an article about how polar bears are having to swim long distances just to get somewhere stable on the ice they once knew as their home. Would you like it if you had to keep moving to stay alive? No, of course you wouldn't. But then, most people, I guess wouldn't understand how it must feel to be in their shoes.
These polar bears, I imagine, having to move about so much, don't know where home is anymore. In humans, we need something stable, something constant, something reliable that we can always turn back to during troubled times. But these bears don't have that. They must be getting so confused by now. Wondering why this is happening to them for the older ones. The younger ones, some of which were born into an unstable, unpredictable world, will never know safety as their ancestors and elders did.
Just like how some of our future children will never know what glaciers look like, because maybe by the time they enter this beautiful world of ours that is being destroyed so mercilessly, all the ice and glaciers would have melted. Who knows, maybe you've never thought about all this before. So that's why I'm telling you now.

Think about it.