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Persuasive Essay On Rights Of Nature

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Cedric Quintana
Prof Cassidy Litle
Eng 122-008
July 15, 2017
Rights of Nature
We must take care of our environment by continually educating our youth on natural selection and the four laws of ecology, and supporting environmental movements that recognize the rights of nature.

Impacts of climate change are increasingly felt by Earth’s inhabitants including us, humans. The current warming, which is only one degree Celsius, has affected different ecological processes such as “species’ genetics, seasonal response, overall distribution, and even morphology” (Hance). Species are suddenly disappearing. A study conducted by “PLOS Biology found that more than 450 plants and animals have undergone local extinctions due to climate change” (Hance). …show more content…

(Martin)

We still should maintain that the ecosystem consists of living species, which in their nature have the right to evolve. Significantly, in 2008 Ecuador granted a statutory right on nature in which a sustainable model of progress guarantees the “conservation of biodiversity and the recovering capacity of ecosystems.

For example, “fish and other species in a river may be recognized as having the right to exist and evolve” (Martin). Ecologists are then pursuing legal protection of nature’s right to evolve. This is an appropriate response to Darwin’s implications of natural selection. But why such law does not seize the attention of the global audience?

Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina are the only countries, so far, which embrace the right of nature to evolve (Laitos). Instead, we misuse natural resources which results in health-issues and pollution (Laitos). We also accelerate the nature’s course to evolution through artificial selection or selective breeding.

Artificial selection gets in the development of nature, which in turn produces lesser quality of a species. As Darwin puts it: “How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man!”, “How short his time, and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.” (Martin)

In other words, we weaken the art of nature. We selfishly only look at our own interest. Our own

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