our white four-legged friends

i have a new animal love in my life. polar bears. ah, how soft and cuddly they look. i was watching a show on tv about them, and they really are quite amazing. the sad thing is, they're very endangered because of global warming. polar bears rely on water bodies freezing over during the winter months so they can walk on the ice, migrating to another place with more food. with the changing climate, the ice isn't staying frozen as long and they have less and less time to feed before having to come back. it's a very sad story, and i don't know how anyone can stand hearing it and not caring.

i wouldn't call myself a tree hugger, as most people say. but i can definately say that i care about the environment and it needs so much help to be fixed. and while i don't like what i'm studying, it does make me feel better that what i'm doing right now is helping to clean our messes up. i was talking to greg last night about how we now have so many alternatives to fossil fuels that we shouldn't have to use them anymore. we have very cost efficient fuels that can be made and work just as well without polluting, and i don't know why they're not more enforced. we do so much to this world without thinking about who and what it might effect. but i guess man has always been greedy since we became "the superior species" here. but that doesn't make us God and we shouldn't be able to harm anything we like just because it doesn't have our brain power or our ability to walk on 2 legs.

if only people would think before they act.

this is a kinda nerdy post, i know. it's just something to think about.