De-Extinction Essay

Humans have played major roles in destroying and protecting a variety of ecosystems. Currently there are many people involved in changing others views on protective earth practices and aware of their impact on changing environments. This is best seen in climate change, conservation movements, and hunting and fishing practices and policies. However, there are already major impacts from climate change, particularly in northern areas, the future impact of a changing climate is rarely considered when determining land-use, including environmental assessments. With expanding resource removal behaviours, the impact of a changing climate and human activities on vulnerable wild life and ecosystems is a big problem. Adding to the problem is a lack of

Instead of changing things to better the future, learning from the past and moving forward people believe they can just fix the problems with technology. The film, From Billions to None: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to extinction, touches on the de-extinction movement. De-extinction is a controversial concept that seeks to recreate a previously extinct species by using remnants of that species’ DNA, which could potentially increase genetic variability of species. This method is being studied with some success for passenger pigeons at a small scale and is potentially a path to learning more about the bird, or a path to the first bird in history to go extinct twice. The wisdom of learning from failure and mistakes is unquestionable. Yet it is extraordinarily rare. This gap is not due to a lack of eagerness to learning, but many to not know where to begin and have different versions of helping the earth be sustained and renewed. There are a vast amount of people genuinely interested in wanting to help and learn from past wrongs to improve future performance of ecosystems and nature’s web. We must know about the changes happening in the environment and make a conscious effort to not follow in the foots steps of our predecessors of taking for granted the wild environment and to begin a new path to live in harmony with the rest of the