time to cry for the new face of climate change

I have seen and photographed black bears going through my backyard for the past 25 years, but I have never seen a Mama black bear in this desperate state. This year was one of the hardest for black bears due to climate change.I took this photo on December 5 of a Mama bear desperarely searching for food for her and her cubs, as she walked through my backyard. Spring came very early this year. The warm weather caused the berries to form and ripen before the bears came out of their dens. The stage 3 drought killed off berries that should have been abundant during the summer. Bears need to bulk up their weight for hibernation, but many of the Mother bears and their cubs are too underweight so they can't hibernate. If they are underweight and try to hibernate, they will die during hibernation. So this Mama bear continues her desperate plight with her cubs to try and find food.
I grabbed my camera and took a quick photo. You can see from the photo her poor state of health. Worse, you can see the weariness in her face as she left to continue her desperate trek to find food for her and her cubs.
When I put the sd card in the computer, and brought up the photo, i just started to cry at the plight of this bear. I know many may find this photo hard to look at, but if we don't look at it we won't know the TRUE STATE of how climate change is affecting EVERYTHING. We can't delude ourselves by saying that the bears will be ok because they can hibernate. I am not sure how long this poor bear can go on.

There are only 2 bear rehabilitation centers for orphaned black bear cubs in British Columbia that are soley funded by public donations.,
The one where I live has seen a proliferation of orphaned and underweight bear cubs beyond what they have ever experienced and those are the lucky cubs.
It staggers the imagination as to what will happen to all wildlife on this planet if we DON'T do something.

So LOOK at this photo hard because to me it is the true face of climate change.
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