'We can tackle climate issue but it is beyond changing light bulbs' Photographer Doug Allan in his own words

For more than 35 years, Doug Allan filmed magnificent polar bears in the Arctic - and in that time he also saw how global warming is destroying their habitat. Here, he writes in his own words for The Scotsman in af first person feature from the 2018 archive.


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