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Polar Bear Man

34 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Matthew Dyer, a civil attorney from Lewiston, Maine, went to Canada's Torngat Mountains on a Sierra Club hiking trip expecting a quiet wilderness excursion. A polar bear dragged him from his tent, and he describes the aftermath on camera in blunt clinical terms: a broken jaw, a collapsed lung, a cracked vertebra, a paralyzed vocal cord. VICE and InsideClimate News take him back to the region, home to roughly ten percent of the world's polar bear population, to ask why attacks like his have become more frequent over the past decade. The answer the film builds toward is ecological rather than random: vanishing sea ice is pushing bears off their usual hunting grounds and into closer, more desperate contact with people. Dyer's return to the site of his own mauling anchors the reporting, giving the climate argument a physical, personal stake instead of abstract statistics. The film stays with his recovery and his account of the attack as much as with the science, treating one man's injuries as evidence of a larger shift already underway in the Arctic.