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URGENT. Hungry Bears, Starving Bears.
Bear Information: Bear Salmon Disappearing.
Bears Have No Food.
Time to organize to feed the bears?

- Bears Starving to Death -
Time to Feed the Bears?

 

We all know: don't feel the bears. If you go camping in bear country, make sure your food is safe from the bears, get a bear resistant container, hang it up high in a tree.

But what about if the bear is starving?

We're supposed to keep food away from bears so they don't get in the habit of doing the lazy thing: raiding our food supply.

****

But we have raided theirs, and raided theirs some more - until now, we're not dealing with just hungry bears. Black bears and brown bears are starving to death.

We're supposed to keep them away from our picnic baskets - but it's not their picnic baskets we've taken away with ever more fishing and toxins and who knows what else. It's a major food source - food they need to get through the winter hibernation, to survive the harsh spring. These hungry bears are not only losing their fat, they're so hungry that their muscles are being eaten away. Next comes organ failure. Then death.

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We feed millions of starving people world wide - though we need to do even more. A friend, Diane, is heading to Somalia - dangerous territory - with Doctors Without Borders. She does accounting, to make sure the money is stretched as far as it can go.

I applaud her. She knows it's dangerous - but for her, working for Doctors Without Borders makes her life worthwhile. It's way more important to her than Western comforts, so easily available to her.

I am so grateful for people like her.

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I also believe we should do the much easier thing of feeding hungry bears, starving bears. No picnic baskets. That's dangerous for humans. But surely we can figure out how to put enough food out for them, far from humans - masses of food to fatten them up.

I don't have much information about bears. But there are those who do. I am sure someone is setting up something - but I searched the web about hungry bears and, while I found a lot on their plight, couldn't easily find a place to head to for people who want to help.

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My thought: we've long hunted animals.

But humans - millions upon millions of us - also have the dream of earth as a garden, as a safe place for all, with plenty for all.

That dream has usually been a religious dream. In the Jewish and Christian traditions, we're supposed to have started out in a garden, which we got kicked out of because we didn't obey. God is supposed to come at some point and, once again, make the world a garden, a place of safety and plenty.

But there's a popular Western saying: the lord helps those who help themselves.

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It's my thought - my very deep belief - that one of the most important human tasks - perhaps the greatest human challenge - is to make real that dream of earth as a garden where lambs and lions lie down together.

(Here's where I first articulated that dream of a true home world - in the script for a light-hearted show about a group of women raising money for children and animals without homes.)

Actually my dream doesn't go that far as lambs and lions frolicking together. But I do wonder about technology that can produce unsentient food for lions, technology that can limit the reproduction of animals that are culled by the large carnivore. These are enormous tasks, challenges - which we would need to be able to meet to create a paradise, earth as a garden.

I believe we are up to it, if we decide to do this.

And this is the first time since the earth became a planet that it's possible - with technology, so dangerous and so powerful - and with us, so potentially dangerous and also with so much potential for love, caring, empathy, and intelligence.

****

Martin Luther King Jr had the dream of equality between the races.

I share his dream - and have my further dream. Earth as a garden, a true home world - a dream that can be reached, can be achieved, if enough of us undertake that incredibly daunting task.

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The nightmare is that we destroy earth, with perhaps a few starving humans remaining, but back in Stone Age conditions, barely surviving in dens deep in the earth.

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The dream. I have a dream. Earth as a garden.

Everything we do to bring peace, to lessen the violence we do to each other and to animals, to increase inner growth and empathy, takes us a tiny step toward that dream.

****

Right now, my dream calls for food for hungry bears, starving bears.

Something that should be easy for us to achieve.

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Elsa

September 11, 2009
copyright © Elsa Schieder 2009, 2011 - all rights reserved

P.S. Even if it turns out that all the information on hungry bears is wrong - it comes from a friend, the internet, and the news - my basic point stays: it's time for ever more of us to undertake the daunting task of making earth a garden.

P.P.S. By the way, the salmon that have all but disappeared, according to my friend, are chum and sockeye.

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URGENT. Hungry Bears, Starving Bears.
Bear Information: Bear Salmon Disappearing.
Bears Have No Food.
Time to organize to feed the bears?.

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HUNGRY BEARS, STARVING BEARS:
BEARS HAVE NO FOOD, BEAR SALMON ALMOST GONE.
BEAR INFORMATION: Is it right, don't feed the bears?


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URGENT. Hungry Bears, Starving Bears.
Bear Information: Bear Salmon Disappearing.
Bears Have No Food.
Time to organize to feed the bears?.

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Hungry Bears, Starving Bears

We make such a mess of things, over and over.
We're so smart, so powerful - and thankfully, many of us have empathy.
But far too many of us can't see - as the saying goes - past the nose
on the end of our faces, or past a quick profit, or a quick hunt.

It didn't matter so much when we had less power - but we are ever more massively powerful.
And so now, one tiny little problem: hungry bears, starving bears, bears with no feed, as the salmon that fattened them up has almost disappeared two years in a row.

Big news: hungry bears eat to guards in Russia.

Horrible.

Starvation is also horrible - human starvation, animal starvation.

My question of the day:
time to feed the bears?
then, how? and who?

Elsa
Sept 11, 2009


copyright © Elsa Schieder 2009, 2011 - all rights reserved

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HUNGRY BEARS, STARVING BEARS:
BEARS HAVE NO FOOD, BEAR SALMON ALMOST GONE.
BEAR INFORMATION: Is it right, don't feed the bears?

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