1. as arctic ice dissolves and polar bears decline...
a. why is the artic ice dissolving?
b. Why does that lead to the decline of polar bears?

2. How soon until the Mpingo tree takes it final fall? what is meant by 'final fall'? what will happen after that?

3. shall we bother to find out or is that just too much slogging?
a. what awareness does the poem try to build when it says 'find out'?
b. why could it be 'just too much slogging'?
c. Why do you think this line is a question rather than a statement.

Poem name: Whose place is it anyway?