POLAR BEAR PERIL: donate to help rescue

Hi! My name is Margaret. The Arctic is warming faster than any other place on earth. The canary in the coal mine for all of us is the polar bear. This endangered animal is perfectly evolved for living off sea ice and the seals that make their homes there – and the sea ice is disappearing. When there is no ice, the polar bears must live on land and fast for months at a time. Food-deprived mothers cannot support healthy cubs, and the population begins to die out – just like human beings are suffering and dying in the face of global warming.

I traveled to the Arctic to find and photograph polar bears. I took this photo of a mother bear, gazing at us. These majestic animals depend on human beings to halt global warming and save their existence. They represent the fragility of all life on this planet.

To do what I can to bring this to extreme danger to greater public attention, I wrote a book, “Polar Peril.” It is a fantasy adventure story in which two Mohawk Indian kids go to the Arctic to save the polar bears. It is thoroughly researched, both as to Arctic and environmental science and polar bear biology, and as to Mohawk culture and theology. “Polar Peril” is intended to draw middle school readers into an adventure story, where they learn and become committed to working for environmental change. Middle school is a pivotal age, where kids have curiosity and imagination and emotion for things important to them. They can lead the grown-ups.

You can buy “Polar Peril” on Amazon. The trouble is, I need to fund a marketing campaign to bring the book to the attention of the public. Three things are important to me: present the book at the LA Times Festival of Books next April, get the attention of streaming platforms to buy the story, and be interviewed on National Public Radio to gain public presence.

The full marketing campaign will cost $7,000. Entering the Los Angeles Book Fair including travel expenses and shipping books to the fair will cost $6,000. The total funding I need is $13,000.

If the POLAR BEAR PERIL campaign is funded, I can bring the story of polar bears and the global threat to the public, nationally and internationally. If POLAR BEAR PERIL fails, this will be just one more missed opportunity to make a difference in the effort to halt environmental warming.

You can make a difference.