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Finding a commercial use for polar bear fur is awesome, actually. It would ensure that polar bears never go extinct.
by spiritplumber 6y ago
Finding a commercial use for polar bear fur is awesome, actually. It would ensure that polar bears never go extinct.
- legulere 6y agoLike how elephants were greatly reduced in numbers to make billiard balls?
- spiritplumber 6y agoI'm more thinking like cows
- arp242 6y agoCows are fairly peaceful animals that naturally live in a herd and have been domesticated for thousands of years (people can get killed by cows, but it's rare). Bears are huge ferocious animals that typically live solitary lives and will kill you and your entire family while hardly breaking a sweat. Keeping polar bears "like cows" sounds like some good comedy sketch material.
- spiritplumber 6y agoCounterpoint: we did it with wolves.
- arp242 6y agoTrue, but this took thousands of years. We could domesticate descendents of polar bears, perhaps. But those would no longer be polar bears. Also, injuries and even deaths from dogs are still quite common, and polar bears (and their hypothetical domesticated descendents) are a lot stronger.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoOr whales, or rhinos, or sharks, or beaver, or buffalo...