Persuasive Essay On Giant Panda

Imagine yourself dying. Crimson blood trickling down your clothes as excruciating pain floods your paralysed body. Yet, standing in front of the ER you see a crowd of patients locked out from the hospital, collapsing from their pain — barricaded from their last chance of survival. Inside, a conscious patient lies on king-sized bed planted in the dead centre of vacant hospital room, isolated from the horde. For more than 50 years[1.0], the world has been pouring in millions of dollars to delay the ticking time bomb of their extinction, just to prolong the already steady heartbeats of the Giant Panda. But should we as a race proceed to waste our finite resources on these pandas, to possibly putting an entire species on a permanent life support system, while we stand and watch others die out?

Surely, it is time the evolutionary force should kick in? How can a species with a bamboo-exclusive diet has a low efficiency of digesting bamboo? These pandas are an evolutionary disaster, and a burden on their dwindling habitat, for which they can’t survive in. Ecologically, the Giant Pandas are neither the strongest nor the most important amongst the ever expanding list of endangered animals. As opposed of a scientifically supported strategy to assess and prioritise those who are vital to their ecology or those in the utmost critical conditions, we are instead fuelling our irrational support on a reliance of the most corrupt and easily swayed system on Earth: the human perception of