As the natural world shrinks due to myopic and misguided human agency (wars, oceans and water pollution, rainforest devastation, climate change aggravated by anthropogenic factors, etc., our effort to help people and animals must be redoubled. The best thing in the world is being able to help someone in need. Sometimes this must be done through radical and enlightened political means, especially if we wish to achieve lasting and meaningful improvement affecting entire categories of beings. Other times, as seen in these videos, through direct action. Exercise your compassion imagination. Practice it as much as possible. We go around only once.
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This natural catastrophe is said to have happened in Peru, but others claim it happened in Nayarit, Mexico. What is beyond dispute is that similar events have been reported in Australia, India, and other parts where the global weather patterns are becoming more capricious and extreme. The images speak for themselves. They make you wonder whether the Gods—if they exist—have any compassion.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Falling for these grifters is easy. The editor himself, an experienced a/r activist, has been fooled on several occasions. The matter is complicated because—thankfully—there are also many legitimate groups rescuing animals in distress all over the world. This problem is typical of a world in disorder, where many urgent social priorities (ecoanimal tasks, eradication of poverty and economic insecurity, eradication of animal exploitation and cruelty, universalisation of healthcare for all sentient creatures, human and non-human, etc.) are still very much impossible since our species remains in the grip of human-made plagues: endless wars for profit, mass ignorance, lowering or negation of compassionate standards due to extensive social hardships, and so on.
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A fortunately happy-ending story, with an animal that was severely neglected and mistreated, including shot at, eventually becoming an ambassador of cheer and goodwill to young and old.
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RACHEL SHAPIRO—The two adult bears and the mountain lion were brought to the veterinarians at the University of California for treatment. One of the bears was pregnant, and both had third-degree burns on their paws. This made it almost impossible to walk and hunt, and without treatment, they would have died quickly in the wild. All three of the animals had to have bandages applied to their paws. This isn’t an easy task for vets. Most wild animals aren’t very trusting of humans and won’t put up with medical treatment. The animals had to be sedated before they could be treated. This worked fine for the original treatment, but they were all given bandages that needed to be changed often. That meant putting them to sleep often, which just can’t be done.
