Extinct like the polar bears

This was too ridiculous NOT to post, so, submitted for your approval, the Dispatch Open Forum:

It's a beautiful fall day but there is something seriously wrong.

The month is November and the frogs are still calling.

On the surface that may not seem like anything to be concerned about but we would be wrong.

Frogs spend their summer storing just enough energy to make it through the winter at a reduced metabolic rate. But now the frogs are basking in the November sun and their increased metabolic rate is burning up their energy stores with no access to the food needed to replace that energy. Many will burn up their energy stores before food is available next spring and will starve this winter. I've seen the unusually high numbers of dead frogs in recent springs following prolonged fall.

This is only one of an infinite number of changes we are forcing on our children.

Why should we care if a bunch of dumb frogs starve?

For that matter why should we care if our gluttonous energy consumption causes them to go extinct like the polar bears?

Those are questions we need to ask ourselves and sooner rather than later.

John Reynolds

Merrifield