Sunday, December 16, 2007

Who's the coolest guy you all know? Daniel B!

Maintaining biodiversity is a huge feat that doesn't seem possible. My favorite animal, the panda bear, is an endangered animal that is been fostered for a long time. Even though scientist across the world are trying to keep these lovable animals from dying out, it's just too much of an effort to keep them all alive. If you think about how many species around the world there are that are endangered, and what seems to be a dwindling amount of new scientist nowadays, there is no possible way to maintain biodiversity around the world. My opinion is that we need to focus on the species that actually affect the way that WE live. In all honesty I can see many animals in the world that don't NEED to be here, they just stick around making things worse for us and taking up our time when they get endangered. I really wish that I could say that we can maintain all the animals we have on the earth but really think about it, we don't need everything. There are animals like the cow and the chicken that help us out a lot by creating food and drink for us day to day, and then there are animals like, sadly, the panda that have almost no use to us. To maintain biodiversity we will need to first get to a point where we have only species that are useful to us and then preserve what we have. Once we get to that point there shouldn't be too much work for our scientists and we can focus on better things like creating a renewable energy source or even smaller iPods. This is the only way that I think we will be able to keep on living while maintaining biodiversity.

1 comment:

palla said...

I also believe that education is essential in getting one to support biodiversity, but who will really be convinced and act by studying only graphs and statistics? We need to SHOW people the mass destruction our world has upon biodiversity. I think the more movies presented to us about the earth and biodiversity, the more we would want to help especially if it appeals to our emotions. Watching innocent children starve and witnessing commercial whaling on the screen definitely made me sympathize and defend the protection on endangered species. Although these movies may not urge me to sign a petition or establish a "save the whales" organization yet, it is definitely a start. We need to encourage children to become and aware and care for the earth by interesting them-make them want to help and we will see where it goes from there.