I don't understand quite why they don't just kill and eat the polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds. There's poor folks around who would love to have some of that protein! If they did that, they could then free up oil fields to, you know, extract oil from!
I mean, they did it with the buffalo to free up land for farming (except they generally didn't eat them - they just skinned them and took the tongues), so why not with the polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds, too?
Nobody needs polar bears. They're nasty, huge, and brutish, more dangerous than a grizzly. I'd bet dollars against donuts that there are plenty of caribou on non-oil lands, so we wouldn't miss those eaten off the oil lands. And migratory birds - if they're migrating to the North Banks of Alaska, how smart or even useful could they be? Certainly no smarter or useful than dodos and puffins, so eat them, too.
Problem solved. Two problems, actually - oil and feeding an over-populated planet with quality proteins rather than poisonous bugs.
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I mean, they did it with the buffalo to free up land for farming (except they generally didn't eat them - they just skinned them and took the tongues), so why not with the polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds, too?
Nobody needs polar bears. They're nasty, huge, and brutish, more dangerous than a grizzly. I'd bet dollars against donuts that there are plenty of caribou on non-oil lands, so we wouldn't miss those eaten off the oil lands. And migratory birds - if they're migrating to the North Banks of Alaska, how smart or even useful could they be? Certainly no smarter or useful than dodos and puffins, so eat them, too.
Problem solved. Two problems, actually - oil and feeding an over-populated planet with quality proteins rather than poisonous bugs.
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