Read the article titled "polar bear protection program." polar bears live across the arctic, in an area that includes alaska and canada. what problems are threatening the polar bears’ habitat? (site 2)

The Bears mostly suffer because of lack of food. Because the ice is melting, seals don't inhabit it anymore in high quantities and since seals are the primary food of polar bears, bears can't get food and can't get fat enough to survive the winter when they are sleeping so they have to resort to searching for other food. This resulted with the decrease in the number of polar bears over the years.

Social darwinism refers to the the theory that people who succeed in our economic system will one day out compete those who fail. one day the rich will out succeed the poor so we'll that there will eventually be no more poor