'I’ve lost count of the number of passersby who say 'You must be really hot in there,'' writes Sabine von Mering. But no one can actually understand what she's saying through the bear mask, so she just nods. 'Yes, it’s too hot; for all of us,' she writes.
than the rest of the globe, which is destroying the polar bear’s habitat. That’s an unbearable fact . But the barrage of data doesn’t seem to move many folks to action.People’s faces light up when they see me standing on the side of the road in my polar bear costume. It makes them smile and grabs their attention. Perhaps it also lowers their defenses.
I call this activity “polarbearing” and I do it, in part, because I know people don’t want to be lectured about climate change. An extinction-themed protest four years ago inspired me to make the costume. I made the head from a template for a paper mask I found on Etsy.com. It meant printing the 20-plus pages of the template and gluing it onto cardboard, before cutting it into dozens of small pieces, then reassembling it according to the instructions. The whole thing took about a day. I got a few yards of “fake fur” at a textile shop, glued some of it over the head and sewed a pair of overalls from the rest.
As we stand there on Route 9, I wonder about the conversations we’re starting in the cars driving by. I think about the couple that seems eager to read every sign, the parents and their kids, who seem to get a kick out of the polar bear suit, the lone driver on the phone with a friend.
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