Our Sucky Life On Earth

              Although we had options, Ms. Fletcher did agree that we are not limited to the options she chose. I listened to "Mass Extinctions and the Future of Life On Earth", by Michael Benton. Benton opens up with a background of dinosaurs and how their bite force is acted upon the development of many innovations which shapes our future. Benton's question was how does one compare the position of extinction and the future of life on earth. What had gone through my head was first to develop ways to slow down and prevent species from dying out. Scientists do have to think about these things when they are building new devices to see how it will affect the things around them. 

               One claim that Benton had was that he claimed that a few hundred species of birds have been killed by human activity. Without the inclusion of other animals, humans have killed a few hundred of only one type of animal. I thought how interesting it is that we are the cause of the death of innocent creatures. These creatures aren't even critical to how we live and we are either purposely killing them for "entertainment" or by our careless mistakes. I am highly interested in how an abundance of animals just isn't ever going to be seen by generations because as a whole we don't care about anything besides our greater good. It's interesting how the human race will only care if it benefits them as a whole. For example, littering is why our trash ends up in the ocean and there is a save the sea life movement lately and we do so little to help conserve sea life. Those who are caught will be fined or taken to jail, but that is just an example of how little we care. We are damaging our environment and atmosphere and we know the consequences. The movements and demand for change will only take us so far. This also plays a part in global warming. Our climate is drastically changing in places it shouldn't and it is so damaged we have no way of reversing it, only slowing it down.

-MAYA BURCH