When calls are made to save animals such as the polar bear, we usually mean the polar bear species. Such advocacy is, of course, respectable, but there’s also a case to be made about helping individual animals in suffering. If it’s us who are causing the global warming phenomenon that is destroying the climate of the polar bears, then aren’t we morally obligated to spare individual polar bears from suffering?
Why there’s an ethical obligation to treat individual animals in suffering
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