— Overview
The notes read a travel diary on warming, and they stop at a call to minimize harm that may also arrive here.
— Contents and key concepts
A travel diary, and a title that already tells
Reading I Want to Walk, the notes say, they felt the seriousness of pollution, and a freshness and a sorrow at facts they had not known. Because the book is in the form of a travel diary, they felt as if they were traveling themselves. From the title one can already guess, they write, that as ice melts with warming, polar bears have nowhere to set their feet. In this stretch an author’s name is not given.
Bears that eat one another, penguins, and two kinds of ice
What shocked them most was that polar bears eat one another. Reading on, the writer felt shame as a human being, and sorrow at a reality in which the bears, to stay alive, must eat one another. Because human greed has so damaged and polluted the environment, they cannot find enough food, and weaker animals of their own kind are eaten — the notes call this 동족포식.
The book, they add, is not overly technical, and was easy to follow, so they would recommend it to others. Through it they learned that it is wrong to say penguins live only in Antarctica, and they learned the difference between sea ice and glaciers.
Tuvalu, and a harm that may also arrive here
The writer already cared about the environment and often read articles on pollution. The book made the seriousness of it felt again, and showed that warming is causing many problems in places other than their own country. The hardest hit among those named here is Tuvalu: a country of joined islands, losing territory as the sea rises, and reaching a situation in which the country itself may have to be given up.
The countries that cause the pollution are fixed, they write, but the people and states that feel its seriousness, or suffer its harm, are not the same. The book puts cases of that seriousness before readers worldwide, and carries the message that further pollution endangers the earth. Pollution is no longer a private problem, and no longer someone else’s affair; one should start now to minimize the harm that may, one day, arrive here as well. The notes leave the book at that lesson. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student reading of I Want to Walk, with no author named in this stretch: a travel diary on melting ice, polar bears eating one another, penguins and the difference between sea ice and glaciers, and Tuvalu losing ground as the sea rises.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
How do the notes first take the book?
The book is in the form of a travel diary, and they felt as if they were traveling themselves. From the title one can already guess, they write, that as ice melts with warming, polar bears have nowhere to set their feet. An author is not named in this stretch.
What shocked them most, and what did they learn?
The greatest shock was that polar bears eat one another; the next pages made the writer feel shame as a human being. Because human greed has so damaged the environment, the bears cannot find enough food, and weaker animals are eaten — the notes call this 동족포식. The book is not overly technical. They also learned that it is wrong to say penguins live only in Antarctica, and they learned the difference between sea ice and glaciers.
Where do they stop?
The hardest-hit country named here is Tuvalu: a country of joined islands, losing territory as the sea rises, reaching a point of having to give up the country. The countries that cause the pollution and those that suffer it are not the same. The book, they write, puts cases before readers worldwide and argues that further pollution endangers the earth; this is no longer a private or someone else’s problem, and one should start now to minimize the harm that may also arrive here. They stop there.
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