Extinction

The Anthropocene Extinction refers to the nature of human effects on the environment causing what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. The collision between civilization and the planet’s ecosystem has resulted in the rapid loss of biodiversity and current extinction crisis (Wake and Vredenburg 2008). The socio-environmental issue of how human behaviors impact biodiversity is addressed in the documentary Racing Extinction which I’ve chosen to analyze (Racing Extinction 2015). The…

Species Extinction: A Pathway to the Sixth Extinction We have all played a game of Jenga, each player removes one block per turn and either the tower will remain upright, or it will all tumble down. This Hasbro game is an exceptional example of the sixth extinction. Simply imagine each block as a different species. Humans are on top while other species like rhinos, polar bears and lions are on the bottom. If one is removed off of the bottom there is a possibility of all of them toppling over,…

The extinction of animals and living organisms is something most humans do not put into perspective, possibly until it’s almost too late. For example, humans don 't realise that their everyday lives are build around these creatures; what we eat, how we breathe, and how our world develops. I myself never thought about a world without whales, manta rays, tigers, plankton and owls and how important they are in my life until I came across the documentary Racing Extinction and the book Sustaining…

really be ideal for a lot of us. Many people think that de-extinction is a bad idea and that it's wasting time. They also think it has scientists distracted from actual problems at hand. But on the other hand some people actually think that de-extinction could be beneficial for Earth and can be used as a good source of education, but students probably won’t care that much. Especially if they are older when learning about it. De-extinction is taking a lot away from us and it's not good,…

Evaluation Argument As humans are we driving ourselves into a sixth extinction? According to Elizabeth Kolbert, writer of The Sixth Extinction, we as humans are so careless that we are literally driving ourselves into a nonexistence. The book starts off with stories of how different species has become extinct or are currently endangered. The book has a lot of facts and they all seem to support the theory that humans are making a mess of things. Due to over killing of animals, miss use of…

Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction, covers the argument that we are currently in another mass extinction because the Earth is following similar trends as it did in the past five mass extinctions. The first chapter of The Sixth Extinction starts out by discussing frogs. Frogs are the one of the oldest species on Earth; however, the extinction rates of frogs is higher than it’s ever been, and it’s only increasing. Kolbert then focused specifically on Panamanian golden frogs. Not too…

De-extinction is something that is being thought about by scientists around the world, but some are thinking differently than others. There are two sides to de-extinction: if it should or should not be done. Scientist and even just regular, not fully informed people are debating about this on a daily basis. Some believe it's something that we should do this to "restore traditional values, strengthen families, and encourage education", while others believe that "Being able to do something doesn’t…

Introduction: The Flim “Racing Extinction”, is a 94 minute documentary that is mainly about the mass extinction of species and the efforts from activists, scientist, and journalist. “Racing Extinction” was released in 2015 and was directed by Oscar-winning Louie Psihoyos. The publisher of this film was the Oceanic Preservation Society. It was written by Mark Monroe and produced by Fisher Stevens/ Olivia Ahnemann. The main reason why I am reviewing this film is because it relates to our…

The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…

event is known as the Permian Triassic Mass Extinction or also called by many the Great Dying. This mass extinction is known as the worst extinction comparing them to the Ordovician, Devonian and the Cretaceous Extinction. Some individuals are not award that the Permian –Triassic are two forming boundary between the end of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic period. The Permian-Triassic Extinction almost killed the whole Earth. Since this extinction took place so long ago it had for…