How Much Longer For The Polar Bears?

The year 2050 is the time when it is predicted for most polar bears to be dead due to several factors such pollution, hunting, development, tourism, and the global warming crisis. The global warming crisis is the one that contributes the most towards the seemingly imminent extinction of polar bears. According to a CBS NEWS article,

more than two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 – including the entire population in Alaska – because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.

Unfortunately, polar bears depend on sea ice as a platform for breeding and hunting seals which is their primary food. But, if the sea ice is decreasing, there will be neither habitat nor food for the polar bears to survive. Most likely, polar bears will be facing extinction thanks to the global warming crisis. As a U.S. Geological Survey scientist Steven Amstrup sadly notes,

As the sea ice goes, so goes the polar bears.