Swedish design group ADDI has come up with an cutting-edge polar bear lifejacket design concept to help polar bears navigate the changes in their habitat. They offer the following explanation for their lifejacket design:
A dog who lives most of its days carried around in an expensive handbag, doesn’t need a camouflage hoodie and a small cap over its ears. There are a few others who we should give at least the same attention. This concept is not a solution for the endangered species, its purpose is to show one of the many areas where people could have done something good with our knowledge, and instead we keep our eyes closed. Hopefully you won’t support cheap crap anymore, save your money for those who really need to be saved. Polar bears are drowning because the ice is melting. They have to swim up to 10,000 km to find food. Global warming needs to be stopped.
The iconic creature of climate change is the reluctant polar bear. Warming in the Arctic is occurring at twice the rate seen in other parts of the planet according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). As ice caps continue to melt, the polar bear no longer has access to ice floes that they use to feed from.
For the first time in history scientists are reporting that polar bears are drowning in the Arctic. One of the contributing factors is that polar bears are now forced to swim longer distances to encounter ice, and the longer swims make the creatures vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia and becoming swamped by ocean waves.
Scientists are now predicting the polar bear may be extinct by the end of this century. What people don’t realize is just how few polar bears there actually are - the world’s population is somewhere between 21,000 to 25,000. The Last Polar Bear explains that, when all is said and done, and after the ice has melted, the formidable polar bear – this King of the Arctic – has nowhere to go but to zoos or other forms of captivity. Maybe a life jacket is not such a bad idea.
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