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Very important that we think outside of the "box" on clean energy solutions. It's happening, yes, but we must double-down on efforts and not retreat too easily for the sake of convenience or expediency. The price to be paid for future losses of unique and critical habitat and/or culturally significant territory is far to great. A stretch of a connection for this #inktober2016 edition, but workable nonetheless! #wearethearctic #keepitintheground #ArcticRefuge #climateaction
Yes, polar bears are THAT "Big" #inktober2016 While starting life at just over a pound, adult male bears (boars) can weigh as 800-1500 pounds and adult females (sows) somewhere between 400-700.
#inktober2016 "Squeeze" OK, so I'm thinking polar bear hug here :) By this posting, and through the magic of #inktober inspirations, I'm actually getting ahead of my mailings to the President for the first time all year -- a fine place to be in celebrating over a year of sending polar bear art to the White House! I'll keep creating images for the rest of the month and will post them daily, but I'll stick with mailing five per week to President Obama. I'll have a requisite lag in posting for November... but the commitment remains through the first week of January. I will celebrate our first female President's official transition by NOT cluttering her mail box!
"Flight" #inktober2016 The Tundra Swan sets off on its annual journey east to Atlantic states. The #ArcticRefuge is a summer home to many MANY birds and is the autumn origin of four North American Flyways #werarethearctic #inktober
#inktober2016 "Escape" A supply barge in the Beaufort Sea... an apt beginning for a little bear's wandering of the world #saveourseaice #climateaction #wearethearctic
There really are no "trees" in the Arctic. For this #inktober2016 prompt during #worldclimateweek, a small berry bush will have to do! #polarbear #arcticfox #wearethearctic
I can't say for sure if polar bears get "scared"... We, I guess, can do that for them. #inktober2016 #worldclimateweek #wearethearctic
#inktober2016 "Worried" And for this National Wildlife Refuge Week a quick reminder that this whole Post Card Project is about encouraging President Obama to provide further "refuge" and protection to Alaska's coastal plain. Celebrate #NationalWildlifeRefugeWeek by helping protect the #ArcticRefuge once and for all http://bit.ly/wearethearctic_action #WeAreTheArctic #inktober
"Transport" #inktober2016 If only we put as much universal care and attention into protecting our wild spaces as we do to protecting our commerce... Fragile stuff. Handle with care! #wearethearctic
For the #inktober2016 prompt "
Jump" and, on this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Post Card Project and We Are The Arctic stand with the Gwich’in, who rely on Arctic Refuge, and all other indigenous peoples who are calling for the protection of public lands to protect their way of life. http://bit.ly/wearethearctic_action #WeAreTheArctic #inktober
Lost. #inktober2016 And to some degree this week also marks a major loss in the fight against a warming world. On Monday 10/3 the CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa observatory reached 400ppm -- and will not likely drop below that mark again for hundreds of years. Not too long ago 350ppm was considered the tipping point for disastrous levels of global sea rise... So important that we focus our energy and intellect on solutions to reducing carbon output and reversing these trends at least as quickly as we have created them. #saveourseaice #advocate #climateaction
I've done something like this before, but the image of a mother bear protecting her cub is a powerful one for me -- and something very much like what we witnessed last September as a large male bear emerged from the fog on a gravel bar north of Kaktovik...
Hidden is the prompt here for #inktober2016 Already enough hardship and challenge living in the Arctic climes. The polar bears can deal with each other, but they are powerless when confronted with the decidedly
unnatural extremes of climate change.
Sad. #inktober2016 But on a happier note, today the Paris Agreement Climate Accord reached it's 55% threshold (56.75%) for implementation. 72 of 195 countries have ratified the agreement and the new deal on climate emissions will start in 30 days!
And when the bears arrive at the bone pile, they are hungry! #inktober2016
After their annual September whale hunt, Inupiat villagers of Kaktovik, AK collect the whale bones into a giant pile on the outskirts of town. Polar bears, still awaiting the return of arctic sea ice, scavenge the bones for every little scrap of remaining meat and sinew. #inktober2016
Understanding the
InkTober drawing challenge just a little more... and there are prompts! This is great and I'll be doubling-down to make them fit the Post Card Project wherever possible. Ink it is for #inktober -- and here (for the noisy prompt) we have a very
silent polar bear stalking seals. As the main prey and most reliable source of fat and nutrients for the bear, there is a direct link to the loss of sea ice and the polar bears ability to hunt. Less ice = much tougher conditions for finding food = a major threat to polar bear survival.
While protecting polar bears is important, the real point of this project is to advocate for removal of the Coastal Plain from any future development. 1.5 million unique and irreplaceable acres of wilderness - "Alaska's Serengeti!" Keep it wild. Keep it -- period!
Subsequently, for those that like to read a little more, there are currently two bills before the Senate, the Alaska Economic Development and Access to Resources Act (S. 3203) and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act (S. 3273) which both threaten to private public lands in the interests of resource and mineral development. We need to move forward in our search for clean energy solutions, not backwards in a last minute land grab to exploit as much as possible. Onwards and upwards!
Head down. Keep going. Full speed ahead!
Ah, the many moods of the polar bear post card project... When they go low, we go high!
As much as this project has been about my own small way of participating in the political process, about encouraging the current administration to give due consideration to an issue that I feel strongly about, its also been an engaging way for me to raise my own personal awareness of SO many other things. That being said, please don't forget about your own participation in the process, and DO get out your vote by November 8th. No polar bear actually running for President, but if there were I bet they'd believe in taking bold steps to reduce our carbon outputs and to get a grip on global warming.
Alas, the Presidential debates have begun... "I'm with her" - for sure! But you still kind of want a fierce mother polar bear to step in and put her wild and imposing self between our kids and the embarrassing display of ugly defensive politicking and decidedly un-Presidential discourse (mostly from the Republicans) that we've been subjected to over the last several months. Clinton, for her part, seemed to kick butt last night. She believes in the science of climate change and the impact that we have on the world -- a debate that is also settled and agreed upon by the actual scientific communinty. She is smart. She is considered. She is experienced. She is the ONLY one on last night's stage that should be President. #VoteforClimate #VoteforPolarbears
After Leonardo da Vinci's Man in a Circle, Illustrating Proportions. And regarding "proportions" a few quick facts: 10% of the Earth's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990's - and only 23% of remaining land is considered wilderness. Please, President Obama, consider adding the Arctic Refuge permanently to those rolls by designating the coastal plain a national monument.
President Obama has set aside over 265 million acres for federal protection -- more than double the amount of any other President -- in his 23 (and counting) national monument designations thus far. Alaska's coastal plain and the 1002 would be another 1.5 million acres. Easy math - even for a bear!
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By: Erik Brooks,
on 11/3/2016
