It wasn't bad enough that Mother Nature and Global Warming were melting glaciers, now they are attacking Santa. "Reindeer herds in global decline", so writes Matt Walker Editor, Earth News
"Woodland caribou (R. t. caribou) crossing a frozen lake in winter, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Woodland caribou are most at risk from habitat loss. Reindeer and caribou numbers are plummeting around the world.
The first global review of their status has found that populations are declining almost everywhere they live, from Alaska and Canada, to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia.
The iconic deer is vital to indigenous peoples around the circumpolar north."
There seems to be little that we can do to stem the tide. We will continue to have polluters and naysayers. We need not question that we are about to go into another major planetary temperature cycle. We need to be working on ways to survive it. Fantasy that all people on earth may not survive. Will we be left with a few...survival of the fittest, so to speak, who will ride out the tide and emerge on the other end of the cycle? Will man have found another planet to inhabit or just fade away as a species? Perhaps we will find a parallel universe that evolved as ours. Or maybe we will be able to save one fertile human pair and create another Adam and Eve. Who knows what exciting possibilities beyond extinction lay in store for us.
Meanwhile, those of us who currently inhabit this warming planet, will continue to do what man has always done. Some will continue to obstruct discovery while others will make dire predictions and wring their hands. Some will be resigned to man's imminent extinction, while others plot how and where to survive. The beauty of it all is, if we don't survive, we'll never know it!
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