What Is The Theme Of The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Korbert

The article on Jane Goodall accentuates a woman’s struggle for her convictions against all odds. The interview makes a good case of how a firm resolve and an unwavering determination for a cause can take a person a long way.

Out of the possible books from the list offered to us, “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman caught my attention by its title. I thought that a title like this would suggest a very fascinating premise, which turned out to be the case with this book. The premise was intriguing – what would the world look like if every single person living on this Earth would suddenly disappear. Being a person, who is always curious about the things to come, I decided that this book would be a great read not only for the sake of doing the book review assignment, but also for the general knowledge that I would receive. I have never read a book that would talk about the history of humanity, our environment, and what effect our presence on our planet has in regards to future consequences. Because of that, I did not have many expectations on the type of information and material offered in Weisman’s book; but I really wanted to learn what kind of a perspective or perspectives Mr. Weisman would take, when approaching a topic so complex as this.

The importance of El Valle De Anton spurred the movement to create systems to preserve frogs worldwide. In Panama a town name El Valle De Anton once deeply respected their golden tree frogs, and ironically they were not disturb when the frogs started disappearing. When the corpses started to pile up, the scientific community began to become concerned and began an effort to preserve the golden frog species and what they found was that frogs from around the world had been plagued by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis-batrachos (or “Bd” for short). This plague is very hard to stop, as we cannot purge the entire planet of the disease, and the plague spreads incredibly quickly.

In this world is the first mass extinction that is being caused by another organism (us). The sixth extinction start really with the industrial revolution. To thought about the characteristics of first industrial revolution. It was being in the first step taking raw materials from the earth. Furthermore, business take materials, make products who gives many waste, powered by fossil fuel-derived energy. The industrial revolution be wasteful because it abusive and focused on labour productivity. More product per hour. All those attributes must be changed to move business to the sustainability. The three major problems businesses face are: What it takes? What it makes? And what it wastes? The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken arrangements with the effects of industrialization on the environment. Hawken's takes the point of view that the environment is being ruined by the economic system. The economic system and the processes of industrialization do not imitate the natural cyclical processes, Finish the death of birth (where the waste in one step becomes the food in another step). In this kind of ecosystem, there is no waste; everything is reused. If industry had imitated this kind of system, there would be no problem with tiredness of resources and damage to the earth. However, this isn't how industrialization works; instead, the process is linear. Business processes result in a great deal of waste, which does great damage to the environment. For example, industry relies on fossil fuels like oil and carbon-based fuels. This creates a problem with carbon dioxide, which is harmful to the

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.

There are thirteen chapters in book The Sixth Extinction, and each one represents something different as the chapters are leading to the end where she points out that there could be hope. The first chapter in the book is called the Sixth Extinction and this chapter mainly talks about frogs and that is because they have been around longer than any other species some say. Frogs have been around for around 400 million years at least that is when they started crawling out of

Extinction: Most species become extinct because they can’t cope with the environmental change, and also because of introduced species that turned into competitors for

The issue I will be raising is one that might not be familiar to all who reside in California and that is primarily focused around the fragmentation and overall mutilation of areas that keep and protect the species Rana Draytonii, otherwise known as the California Red-legged Frog. One of the reasons I raise this issue, is because most importantly “these frogs were named the official state amphibian of California via AB 2364” (Patrick McGreevy.). An even greater reason to discuss this dilemma is because they are limited in their size around the Southernmost California residences, whereas they had previously occupied approximately “70% of its former habitat” according to environmentalists (Campbell.). My goal is to highlight their ecological value to the state and how the California red-legged frog’s value is more significant than the fragmentation and intrusion taking place. These red-legged frogs are currently listed as endangered, but they are vulnerable to human intrusion by means of erecting buildings, projects for road construction, introduction of a non-native species along with habitat fragmentation in areas near where they might usually reside such as near the south Mendocino County and along southern California with populations extending to the Santa Rosa Plateau (Hammerson, Geoffrey). The California red-legged frog has an intrinsic link to

From the dawn of humanity, nature has been sacrificed for the sake of progression. Forests are chopped down and paved with concrete, while everyday scientists work to enhance species chosen as beneficial while killing those thought of as nuisances. By the mid 20th century, this had become an accepted and encouraged faucet of life, that is, until biologist by the name of Rachel Carson published Silent Springs, a book dedicated to stopping the mass extermination of blackbirds. Through carefully constructed arguments and rhetoric, the novel was able to transform the American mindset of their view on nature. Therefore, Rachel Carson uses figurative language and appeals in order to portray the mass spraying of wildland as harmful.

A report from Recovering America’s Wildlife Crisis states, “More than 150 species have already gone extinct and about 40% of freshwater fish species are imperiled.” Animals are being killed off by the minute. Now the wildlife species are going to abolished from Earth.

In 1962, renowned biologist Rachel Carson published the book Silent Spring. The book sought to show Americans how their wish to “eradicate” animals that inconvenience could have unintentional and adverse affects on nature. While describing man’s unfavorable effects on nature, Carson also employs many rhetorical strategies to construct her brilliant argument.

Animal Abuse. Shrinking Biosphere. Mass Extinction. Like animal activist and writer, T.C. Boyle says, “Everyday's Auschwitz for the animals” (6 Boyle). These are all dreary topics that are occasionally brought up to our attention. Being the naive creatures we are, we choose to try and push these ideas into the bottom of our subconscious. When asked about human’s role in the environment, T.C. Boyle says, “It’s quite clear to me that our species is on the way out” (Nazaryan). Boyle relays in multiple interviews that humans destroy the ecosystem and then feel guilty and try and act as a dominion power over nature resulting in messing up things more. T.C Boyle’s view on human intrusion on animal rights are the driving force behind the themes and

The non-fiction book that I decided to read was, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert. What led me to picking this book was that it seemed the most interesting out of all of the non-fiction book selections. Since I already knew most of the reasons why animals went extinct, this book didn’t have an impact me. But when I previously learned about animals extinction, I was impacted because it let me know what happened to dead species species. Examples of this could include learning about the dinosaurs when I was younger or learning about climate change and hunting when I was in middle school.

Octavia E.Butler(1947-2006), who is one of the African-American women writers in science fiction circles. She has twice won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award,and she is also the first science fiction writer who wins the Genius award given by MacArthur Foundation. Butler has created 12 novels,including”Parable of the Sower”is one of the fable novels.From the perspective of genre,the science fiction novel belongs to the narrative of new slaves, describing a story how the hero Lauren reappears the state of America in 2024,an environmental crisis happened in the United States and Lauren try to build “Earth Seeds”communities.”. Parable of the sower” shows a vision of the environmental disaster and eschaton from a unique perspective, especially it shows how African-Americans seek best to achieve environmental justice and build a harmonious ecological society in this course of ecological catastrophe . The objective of this essay is to highlight environmental justice and make in-depth analysis,then reveal minority Americans from the perspectives of both environmental crisis and social crisis,especially environmental crisis and its causes that African-Americans suffered,and promote environmental justice.

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss depicts a world ravaged by deforestation and suffering from other environmental crises. In the town of Thneedville, an aspiring capitalist begins to sell his new product and as a result of booming business, the cornerstone of his business pays the price. The trees, the only natural resource used in production, are harvested to the point of extinction. The lack of trees leads to soil erosion, air pollution, and species extinction. While this is a children’s tale and Dr. Seuss’s illustration may be quite extreme, it is a reality for future generations of our planet. Human involvement in ecosystems by clearing land for urban development, logging, and agriculture have all exacerbated the rate of decline in the region’s natural systems. The deforestation of rainforests for the cultivation of palm oil is causing the possible extinction of orangutans and exacerbating air quality issues in Indonesia.