• Flying Squid
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    12 months ago

    That would require an effort by conservation groups, the various governments, and polar bear experts

    That’s exactly the problem that both the article and I have brought up. Greenland has no obligation to take the polar bear and has good reasons not to.

    • wanderer
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      12 months ago

      Do you expect me to personally negotiate with Greenland?

      • Flying Squid
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        12 months ago

        No, I expect you to explain to me why Greenland would accept such negotiations with Iceland when it would put their own polar bear population at risk.

        • wanderer
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          02 months ago

          That’s something you should ask Greenland, something one might do in some sort of negotiation.

          • Flying Squid
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            22 months ago

            Why am I the one that has to come up with a plausible way for your idea to work?

            • wanderer
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              02 months ago

              You seem to want to know the answer to the question and I have already given you all I can. so I will just repeat:

              I certainly would not be involved so I don’t know why you think I should be the one that comes up with any plan. I don’t have to be a subject matter expert to advocate for a cause. I don’t have to be an OB-GYN to advocate for abortion rights. I don’t have to be an environmental scientist to advocate for action on climate change. And I don’t have to be an expert on polar bears to be able to say “Maybe we shouldn’t kill polar bears.”

              • Flying Squid
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                12 months ago

                And I don’t have to be an expert on polar bears to be able to say “Maybe we shouldn’t kill polar bears.”

                Except you have not given a viable alternative to killing the polar bear.

                • wanderer
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                  12 months ago

                  I have given an alternative. It is just not perfectly detailed enough for some random person on the internet that has no say in anything related to the subject.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    02 months ago

                    You have not given a viable alternative. Your alternative is “negotiate with Greenland.” That is not viable and I explained why. It risks their entire polar bear population. It would have the potential to kill far more than just one polar bear and much more slowly and painfully.

                    But I guess that’s your preferred solution to shooting a single bear in Iceland, the first since 2016.