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Glacial_Self t1_j1unkpi wrote

It's wild that for my entire life, we've been saying they're dying off. Every single year, there's news like this. If we were going to help them, we would've already. They're not going to make it.

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Taelech t1_j1v5keb wrote

We banned most hunting of them. Numbers of polar bears have been climbing for 40 years. Don't give up hope. Bears are adaptable creatures. The big question is how fast is the world going to change, because adaptations take time. That we can do something about. Let's hope we will.

https://www.npr.org/2013/02/02/170779528/the-inconvenient-truth-about-polar-bears

https://insight.factset.com/polar-bears-bullish-or-bearish-outlook

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