Analysis Of Animals Wiped Out: When Humans Rule The Earth

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History details the continued loss of biodiversity that has occurred since the rise of mankind. Elizabeth Kolbert claims that we are now in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, and that, if precautionary measures are not taken, the loss of biodiversity would be catastrophic. Chapter one begins by describing the golden frogs in the town of El Valle de Antón, and how they were beginning to disappear. The frogs disappeared due to a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. This fungus has spread around the world at a lightning-quick rate, killing all sorts of amphibious organisms at an unnatural rate. The cause of the rapid spreading of the fungus has been theorized to be due to humans inadvertently spreading

We are slowly killing our planet and our co-habitants at such a high rate that some say we are responsible for the sixth mass extinction. In the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History author Elizabeth Kolbert an American journalist and professor at Williams College travels to different parts of the world to search for evidence that the sixth extinction is in fact happening now. In The Sixth Extinction Kolbert demonstrates the many ways in which humans are speeding up the loss of so many species. The question is, is it possible to stop or even slow down the loss of other species due to human actions? When we think about extinction we tend to think of cataclysmic events such as the meteor that struck Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, was written by American author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert in 2014. Kolbert’s scientific non-fiction book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2015 and was a New York Times Bestseller (The New Yorker). There have been five mass extinctions on our planet so far, Kolbert’s mission was to find as much information as she could about the sixth extinction. Which she believes is happening in current time, and who does her research show may be responsible? Mankind.

Thus beginning the but the animal yet again where worried that now the man would grow lonely, so then Hactcin, with a lice made the man dream of a women. When he had woken there she was, and they were instructed to eat plants and animal. From the first man and women come all people of their tribe after. Apache spirit “Holy Boy” tried to make the sun and with help of White and Black Hactcin and Red Boy they made what daylight is to us now. Shamans claimed they controlled the sun but four days after an eclipse occurred and unable to bring the light back, White Hactcin called upon the animal and with their help they created a mountain. This mountain was climbed by White, Black Hactcin and Holy boy as well as Red boy who only saw the sun was in another earth where it shined bright. Man and women where the first to climb up the mountain and there all others come up except two, an old man and an old women. They stayed behind but told the others they had to go back one day which is why when we die we go the underworld.

Stephen Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs” completely agrees with Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb’s essay “Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality.” Gould’s essay deals with three theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs, two of which he argues are entirely invalid because they are not in accordance with the basic rules of argument laid out by Williams and Colomb in their essay. Gould also states that the third theory of dinosaur extinction, natural disaster, follows all the rules that Williams and Colomb espouse, and thus is a sound argument. Gould, Williams, and Colomb all state that the world has a problem with irrational arguments being shoved down people’s throats, and call for a

The advent of functional analysis (Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, & Richman, 1982/1994) and functional assessments (Dunlap & Kern, 1993) have provided behavior analysists with great ability to provide effective treatment for their clients. One common topic of research is the treatment of escape-maintained behaviors.

In the past several years news organizations have reported that the wolf populations have been dwindling and researchers are attempting to bring the wolf populations back to what they should be. The population on Royal Isle has been struggling to survive. Many populations are suffering on the island and researchers are struggling to make the population hit a point where they are able to survive without overpopulating or under populating. The wolf population in upper Michigan has now hit a high where people are starting to hunt them to protect wildlife. It used to be a very small population but now it is thriving which will cause adverse consequences. This is also a struggle in Yellowstone National Park. People have a lot of different

In the beginning, there was one man who controlled the dynamism of the universe and his power ruled over all existing species. However, this universe contained great destruction and disaster. The man was unable to show jurisdiction to the deities and in response they cursed this land with a one hundred year flood and a rigorous rainstorm. The crashing and plunging of rain forced the animals to migrate and the plants to stop growing. When in fact, two loyal animals stayed, a snake and a coyote.

Mad Cowboy seeks to discuss the risks of animal consumption by the human race through the author’s (Mr. Lyman’s) story of transformation from dairy farmer and cattle rancher to going vegan. He was a fourth-generation dairy farmer and cattle rancher in Montana. Mr. Lyman’s organic dairy farm outside Great Falls, Montana was started by his grandfather and passed down through the generations to him and his brother. He grew up on the farm and by the time he was eleven he had learned how to milk the cows, brand and castrate the calves. At Montana State in the College of Agriculture he learned about using pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics for farming. After a stint in the Army Mr. Lyman came home to help his father with the farm

Since the beginning of life itself, some species have lived and prospered while other species have gone extinct never to be seen again by mankind. Because of this, some would claim that extinction is natural and not significantly problematic to the world that we live in. Others, however, understand that due to climate change, habitat loss, and poaching, more and more species are becoming endangered which leads to a chain reaction that can be devastating to ecosystems. Species such as the Chinook salmon, gorillas, tropical sharks, and polar bears are all directly affected by climate change, species such as northern spotted owls, Sumatran tigers, and lemurs are greatly harmed due to habitat loss, and species such as the sea turtle, Javan rhinoceros, African elephant, and the Red-Fronted Macaw are all affected by poaching driving them all closer and closer to becoming extinct.

Since before the industrial evolutions humans have been pumping green house gasses—carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons— into the atmosphere however, it wasn’t until recently that the amounts being produced are shoving the Earth into a sixth extinction. While the causes of this upcoming extinction are constantly debated on it has earned itself the name Holocene extinction. This name is derived from the theory that humans are the main contributors to this extinction. To investigate the cause Elizabeth Kolbert, and American journalist and professor at Williams College, took the world on a wild and saddening journey on the human contribution to this looming extinction in her novel, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History. Not only does Kolbert’s book explain how humans have contributed to global warming and its effects on life on land but also ocean acidification and how life under the sea has changed over the years.

“The appearance of Homo sapiens and the disappearance of various species of large mammals” –these words, I believe, demonstrate the theme of Paul S. Martin’s famed hypothesis. Martin’s theory, also known as the Overkill hypothesis, considers that humans were the sole contributors to the Late Quaternary extinction of megafauna that happened in the last 50,000 years in various continents, mainly in the Americas and Australia. According to Martin, as humans started colonizing new areas of the world, they introduced predators, competitors and disease vectors. Due to such introductions, the megafauna faced extinctions as they were hunted for food and clothing, caught diseases brought on by the humans and new species such as Pacific Rats, and faced food shortages. Martin went onto say that humans not only caused extinction of large mammals but they also wiped out various smaller mammals, along with a large quantity of birds, particularly of the terrestrial type. He alleged that over 200 species of vertebrates, ranging from ones that were enormous in size and weight (weighing up to 22,000 lbs.) to extremely small mouse-sized vertebrates, are on the list of animals that have undergone extinction because of human arrival and involvement.

The study focused on the impact of the change in human behaviors on the extinction of animal species. It was found that change in human behavior to activities such as domestication of wild animal species, hunting, and encroachment of their natural habitats were some of the ways humans are impacting on animal species. The study was concluded that restrictions need to be enacted to ensure that domestication and hunting of wild animal species do not disturb the structure on the natural ecosystem and the root causes of natural habitat encroachment such as growth in human population need to be checked to prevent further encroachment.

The soul cannot be eradicated of all vestiges of evil. Life itself is a paradox in which we all must accept and balance our avarice aspirations in order to maintain a serendipitous existence. When our inner monstrosity is aroused the delicate components that compose our humanity are transformed under the duress of our self- serving desires. We forsake forgiveness for revenge. We exploit the secrets of those surrounding us to bring validity to our lies. Brother against brother, sister against sister we turn to hatred, we turn to fear, we turn to genocide. Genocide, the deliberate and systematic annihilation of an individual group, not only endangers the existence of humanity but also, mutilates its very definition by portraying an environment where morality and justice are forsaken in an aspiration to obtain power. Throughout history mankind’s lust for control has caused unthinkable destruction. In 1933 German tyrants annihilated eleven million people, decades later in 1992 the Bosnian Serb leaders targeted and massacred over one hundred thousand of their own citizens, in the two years that followed the Hutu brutally slaughter over eight hundred thousand people. These heinous crimes were systematically deployed, creating damage of grand proportions. Crimes of hatred, crimes of jealousy but not, crimes of secret. Often neighboring countries would declare a state of neutrality and allow the destruction to continue under the sanctity of a diplomatic treaty. These acts of

As the years go by humans acquire more and more knowledge about technology, the environment, animals and each other. You would think that this knowledge would make us more accepting and understanding, but in fact it seems to have the opposite effect for some people today. People are all worried about efficiency, money and mass production, and many times overlooks animals and the environment. Though there are activists and scientist that stand up for nature, more should be done to raise awareness and help their cause.