Polar Pathos

I had a very interesting conversation with my cab driver yesterday. Somehow we started talking about global warming. This is something he knows a little bit about. His wife is Inupiat and they've lived in the village of Wainwright all their life, have family there, and still go there. You don’t get any closer to the environment than that. The people that live there are substance hunters and have lived off the artic sea for thousands of years.
I told him about the article I’d read about polar bears drowning because the ice flows are melting. . “Did you see any pictures?” He questioned. I had to admit that I didn’t although I had looked. The only pictures I had seen were
animated carton bears . “There you go”, he scoffed, “something else made up by the environmentalist to keep the drilling out of ANWAR.”