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Day: the last polar bear's cry!
I am a polar bear. I
have been living in the Arctic for the last 5
years. I was born on an iceberg and saw my parents
die shortly after my birth. My mother taught me how
to fish for seals and bigger fish but I have seen
none in the past weeks.
The iceberg I was
living on gradually melted and I fell off it when
it could not hold my weight anymore. Since then, I
have been losing weight rapidly because I have not
eaten in days.
I am also wondering why
it is getting so hot. My fur feels like a useless
coat and I am very uncomfortable. I wished I could
swim more North but I am at the furthest North
point of the ocean yet I am still very hot. I am
wondering what ís wrong, what will happen to
me.
Last week I had
encountered a mother bear and her baby. I was very
happy to finally have other polar bears to spend
time with. My joy rapidly changed when I realized
the mother was in agony from exhaustion and famine
and the baby was not much better.
Once the mother died, I
held the frightened little cob near me but felt
very helpless. After it fell asleep crying, I dove
in the ocean in hope to find any kind of fish to
feed him. I swam desperately as fast as my paws
could bring me but I came back empty handed. My
disappointment turned into rage when I realized the
little baby bear had died, alone on the shrinking
iceberg.
I made the resolution
to survive no matter what difficulties would be
ahead. I am determined to find a nice cold place,
filled with icebergs and snowy land and where the
ocean is full of seals and fish to satisfy all my
needs.
 The
mother bear told me before dying that the melting
of the snow and the disappearing of most animals is
a consequence of what she called ìglobal
warmingî. It was not clear what exactly
caused this warming of the planet but she was
certain that mankindís pollution was
responsible for a big part of it.
The mother polar bear
was saying that man in his ambition to possess more
and more useless toys had caused an imbalance in
natureís system. Their industries and cars
were creating toxic gas that would have created a
hole in the ozone layer, the blanket that used to
protect us from the sun. This would, in part,
explain why I was feeling so hot all the time and
why there was no food to nourish me or even no
iceberg for me to rest on.
 As
I was accompanying the mother polar bear in her
last moments, she went on to tell me that most men
did not accept responsibility for global warming.
Hence, many men were inventing theories of
natureís bizarre behaviour instead of
admitting their contribution to global warming. By
the time they had realized that global warming and
natureís destruction was of their
responsibility, the damages were
done.
 As
mother polar bear was in her last dying breaths,
she concluded: 'Don't worry, you will not be
bothered by mankind anymore as they have long
disappeared from the earth!"
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