Cox wrote a response, and leading bear biologists lined up to defend him, noting, for starters, that feeding bears is illegal, and that the cub was in such poor condition that it was likely to die regardless. But they most of all stressed that feeding individual bears would only put a Band-Aid on the problem of climate change—it missed the point. Robert Buchanan told me that the reactions he saw were indicative of a knee-jerk, “bunny-hugging” attitude that, frankly, he can’t stand. Here were folks who burn a disproportionate share of the world’s fossil fuels feeling self-righteous about polar
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