If all the Polar Bears die who will miss them?Eskimos Maybe. I dont understand?

Question

Earth has been slowly changing since the beginning.Why is it not OK for some things to die out.

There we go again, comparing people with animals.

Human nature is not a natural occurrence?

I guess Im confused about what is natural and what is not.

Im getting tired of paying for "necessary"things.Better learn to farm under water.But seriously we may be living on Mars by then.Who knows.

Answer 1

All organisms on earth are balanced in a global ecosystem. There is a fine line between all organisms in an ecosystem and while many people don't see the affect it may have directly on them, it will impact more that you think.

Sure, the polar bears don't affect many people in the world, considering it makes no direct influence to them. However, the polar bear is the main predator in the artic. It is at the top of the food chain and like grizzly bears and large cats, they keep the rest of the organism population down. Too many of the top predators means organisms on the food chain may suffer. Not enough top predators means another top predator will emerge.

Even if the polar bears don't make sense, think of mosquitoes. Most people agree that they don't do anything but cause a lot of itchiness and spread disease. Take them away and you lose a huge food source for many organisms like bird and insects. Now, you lose those organisms (or at least get reduced), then it affects the organisms above them etc etc.

This is just the effects regarding direct food chains. The environmental impacts will also be affected. For example, some trees need fire for their seeds to develop. Others need flooding for their seeds to develop. Prevent natural fires or natural flooding and you remove those tree species.

Honestly, it's not okay for some species to die out. Some people want some species to die out. Regardless of that opinion, the reason humans are concerned for extinction is due to our impact on them. If a species dies out on their own, it's natural. But human don't follow the natural laws anymore and most of the extinctions that occur are due to our impacts. There's some responsibility that we feel when a species is close to extinction.

Answer 2

Polar bears are one of the hardiest survivors in the natural world. They get a lot of attention because there are many polar bear lovers out there. When polar bears start dying, that is a sign to ecologists that many other things are probably also dying. There isn't enough scientist for all species on the planet to be studied so they studies the ones that make the most difference.

If you want to talk this as a moral argument, we can begin with asking, "If all the people with AIDS die, who will miss them?" Could we say that people that don't adapt or are strong enough should be left to die because that's the way nature intended? Should people be taking medicines and vitamins that extend our natural lives? I can honestly say that when your grandmother whom I've never met dies, I wouldn't miss her at all.

That's a fine argument if we talk about individuals only. But when an entire race dies because of one cause, we have to start talking about the health of the planet. The polar bears dying is not what you said "slowly changing". It's a very quick amount of time happening over a few short years. Not the thousand of years of slowly dying that most other species have when they are outcompeted. Today it may be the polar bears, but tomorrow it may be Coho salmon, and the next day it could be a year's crop of wheat ravaged because of locus swarms created by the extinction of birds that eat locus. If you learned anything in your biology class, it is that everything is connected to everything. Polar bears are linked to the rest of the food chain. If they die, other things are affected that can have very large repercussions to even humans.

Answer 3

I see where you are going with this. Natural selection is what made us who we are today. But now we have evolved past the point of not caring for another species, we did this when we began domesticating cats for no good reason other than religion. We have put the animalistic need to not care behind us, and have moved forward. Would you really like it if you had to explain to your grandkids why the polar bears died? And btw, you aren't the only one who thinks the weak should die out and nature should take it's course. Hitler had the same philosophy.

Answer 4

Its not ok for the polar bears to die out because, WE are the ones responsible for it...it has nothing to do with the earth changing slowly over time. It is not a natural phenomenon. Polar bears are only dying out because WE are killing them with our pollution.

Answer 5

It's not necessarily that anyone would miss them, but it's the fact that they are dieing off because of human actions. If it were a natural occurance that they were beginning to die off it wouldn't be as bad, but humans should take responsibibility for their actions of causing the icebergs to melt. It's just not fair that the polar bears should have to suffer.

Answer 6

The ones who are mostly connected to Polar Bears will also die, if all the Polar Bears die.

Humans wouldn't be mostly affected if all the Polar Bears die.

Answer 7

For most people, the fuss is not about the polar bears so much. It's that the loss of their habitat due to Arctic ice melting is an early sign of problems to come from climate change.

Man caused climate change ("global warming") will cause disruption to agriculture and flooding of coastal areas. That will cost huge sums of money to fix, and lower your standard of living.

Care about that?

Answer 8

Lots of animals rely on each other. Polar bears are carnivores and keep the seal population in check. Too many seals would eat too many fish and so on and on leading to starvation. It is very complex.

Answer 9

It's perfectly OK. In fact, I do my part every day. Ever had an Eskimo pie? Know what they're made of? Eskimos.