Phelan worries about human beings "self-inflicted extinction" and I do as well. We are doing it to ourself and we are the ones to blame for our world falling apart. We aren't taking responsibility for what we do even though everyday we just add to problem more and more. Phelan points out that "the global climate is changing too violently for DNA to respond by fiddling around with heat regulation and hair thickness; forests everywhere are being clear-cut too quickly for their inhabitants to adjust,so food chains are coming undone...." proving our naive nature. We are cutting down trees to make room for houses, just to get more money. But what about those animals that live within that forest? Why is a human anymore important than that animal that has been living in that location for years? We have just stopped migrating and settled down in this one location so it needs to be expanded. People are finding every way possible in order to accomplish this goal.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
and it's all downhill from here...
"The fate of our civilization, and maybe our species, may be determined by the next five generations," says Ehrlich, starts off page 202. This is a scary, but very true statement. It is up to our future generations to make up for what we have screwed up concerning our evolving over the past years. We have created higher levels of technology and found faster and easier ways of doing things, but we don't realize the consequences that coincide with our actions.We are contributing to the decaying of our environment and atmosphere and we aren't thinking twice about it.We are polluting ourselves and future generations, a lot of the time without our knowledge.
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I understand what you are saying, and somewhat agree, however I think we are trying just as hard to survive we just don't see that side of it. Example being there are so many doing research to find cures for these super viruses, you only hear about it when they make a break through. We do try and make things more effient but sometimes we go backwards in our attempts. Take for example the CDF energy efficent bulbs, yes they save alittle energy, but yet contain poisoinous mercury and are not supposed to be thrown away in the garbage. We all do, so we will be leaching mercury into the ground water eventually. I think we try, we just don't succeed as often as we should. Thanks!
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