Extinction caused by human lifestyle

I enjoyed reading this article because it not only provides the causes of the decreasing numbers of organisms found here on earth, but also provides examples, graphs, and statistics on the current state of those species. I thought that the article was put together in a well thought out structure and is easy to follow along to. They also provided solutions at the end of the article. I agree that we can fix what is happening, but some of the solutions that they are proposing would not be easily accepted by a large portion of people. Even if those people would accept these solutions, it would probably be next to impossible to break their current way of life because they have been living the same lifestyle for so long.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/vanishing/

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2017 at 11:27 AM

    I really enjoyed this article from start to finish, mostly because of the information it gave and the excess information left out. As you said the composition of the article is simple and gets straight to the point thus making it easier to understand and grasp in just a couple of slides. I also believe that some of those solutions would work astonishingly well for our ecosystem and protecting creatures from extinction, such as changing our use of energy with solar panels for example, with the only problem being the cost of creation and distribution to the majority of the population. However as you had stated a couple solutions would be outright impractical especially with the span of time we have left before these creatures are nothing more than relics of the past, which is terribly saddening knowing that we could fix almost everything with a change of individual lifestyle.

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  2. chrheaOctober 17, 2017 at 7:25 AM

    Such an intriguing format!

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