Sea ice has retreated to record
levels. This is causing new stress for our polar bear friends. Protecting
the polar bear is going to require strategic and plausible plans that we can
implement that will reduce green house gas emissions. (I realize that we are
all inwardly saying...Ugh..we know, we know..) We will need to derive a strategy and a plan for sustaining a viable and healthy polar
bear population.
Can you envision this in your
mind? Can you imagine a world that honors and supports all life, such as
the polar bear? What does this look like? What type of community could
we live in that would support this?
While it is important to understand
the challenges facing the polar bear (See below), it is
vital that we collectively identify a goal and align with a vision that both
empowers us and aids us as we create the future.
Ed Oakley and Doug Krug in Enlightened
Leadership outline a process where it is possible to derive new answers,
insights and establish a compelling and empowering vision by simply asking the right
questions. The first question is
1. What is already working?
Sample Answer: How are we currently
succeeding in changing how we as individuals/corporations/governments operate?
What else?
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2. What makes this work?
Sample Answer: Could we list public
awareness campaigns? Tax exemptions for green initiatives? Laws and
regulations? What else?
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3. What is the objective?
Sample Answer: Could this be
preserving arctic habitat or enabling a growing and sustainable polar bear
population? What else?
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4. What are the benefits of
achieving this objective?
Sample Answer: What are the benefits
with respect to polar bears/ other creatures in living in the arctic/ humanity/
ourselves? What else?
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5. What can we do to move closer to
our objective?
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~Please join the conversation.
Leave your thoughts as comments.
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Let's not dwell exclusively on
the problems, let's put our energy into solutions -- SD
Major Threats to the Polar Bear:
Climate Change - Reduction in sea
ice and food
Toxic Pollution - PBCs, industrial
by-products, pesticides
Oil and Gas - Population, habitat
destruction
Overharvesting - Oversight
of legal hunting is needed
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