The hunters saw him beating, pounding, and crying, so they said he was mad. They thought the white polar bear, as he hit the water, kicked the snow, screamed, and slapped his face, had gone mad!
The White Polar Bear: But he wasn’t mad. He was exhausted, hungry, and distressed, suffering from failure in obtaining the food he loved from ringed seals. These seals usually hide in the water under the ice cover. He walked and walked until he found one of the holes that seals make in the ice to breathe from. He would approach stealthily, holding his breath, and as soon as a seal appeared, he would rush to snatch it and devour it. For a long time he had been walking stumblingly without finding anything to eat.
Food and Nature: Something changed the nature of the polar region where the white bear moved. The ice melted over vast areas measured in thousands of square miles, leaving the area like a swamp where snow, water pools, and muds intermingled. He wasn’t skilled at walking in this swamp, and that swamp didn’t allow him the freedom to swim to reach the place of the seals that had fled far away.
Failure: A long time passed, and the white polar bear failed to find anything to eat. Summer was about to end, and he hadn’t prepared his body to endure the long polar winter. He was used to eating a lot in summer to accumulate fat under his skin before entering periods of winter hibernation.
The Polar Bear and Winter: In winter, the temperature drops to below forty degrees Celsius below zero, and the sun hasn’t risen over the polar region for three months. What does the polar bear do? He beat, pounded, and cried from severe despair, until the hunters in the polar region thought he was a mad bear.
Who is Mad? He wasn’t the mad one. The mad one was the creature that caused distortion of the polar region with his bad behavior toward nature. He kept running thousands of nuclear experiments to test his dirty weapons, not concerned with the heat, gases, and radiation they produced. He extravagantly launched space rockets, leaving behind waste harmful to the atmosphere.
As for warplanes, they produce shock waves that loosen miles of upper atmospheric layers, not to mention their emissions of heat and harmful gases, in addition to chlorofluorocarbon gases used in refrigerators, sprays, and air conditioners working with Freon gas.
The Ozone: All this led to the erosion of the ozone layer and the formation of a large hole over the polar region. From this hole poured the burning sun rays loaded with harmful ultraviolet rays, melting a lot of polar ice, and making the polar bear region like swamps.
Easy Prey: Finally, the white bear fell from severe exhaustion and hunger. He no longer beat, pounded, and cried. He was breathing with difficulty between the feet of hunters who saw him as easy prey, obtaining him without effort, believing his madness was what landed him in their hands.
The Extinction Disaster: Not caring that what threatens the polar bear also threatens all life. If white bears became extinct, the number of seals would increase, and they would eat more fish until fish became extinct. When fish become extinct, seas and oceans die, and death threatens humans.