Bears In the Pressure Cooker
Species fall to extinction every week
Of natural selection, scientists speak
But habitat destruction is caused by man
Who neglects to take an environmental stand
Ozone depletes as gas poisons the air
And death watch begins for the polar bear
Fluffy, white creatures who romp in the snow
Thrive in temperatures of fifty below
Earth’s Arctic playground is disappearing
Glaciers and tundra are quickly clearing
Revealing the woolly mammoth’s remains
Sad echoes from the last Ice Age retained
Since 2004 the Pole cap has depleted
Half the Arctic ice to sea has retreated
Glacial thickness shrinks a half foot each year
As mother bears nuzzle their cubs in fear
Preservation efforts now underway
But where will the rescued polar bears stay
If climate changes prevent the North Pole
From shifting to a site that’s polar-bear cold
Just twenty to twenty-five thousand remain
Perched on floating icebergs, moaning sad refrains
In fewer than fifty years all may be gone
Perhaps only in children’s books they’ll live on
* For Amy's "Ode to the Endangered" challenge
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