Racing Extinction: Movie Analysis

The movie, Racing Extinction, was a great insight on how humanity is about to cause the 6th mass extinction. One way that humans are causing the sixth mass extinction is carbon emissions. Our factories, methods of transportation, and dietary needs are putting an awful lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon we release then enters the oceans and this is making the oceans more acidic, which is killing aquatic life. Another way humans are causing the 6th mass extinction is over hunting. This was prevalent in Indonesia and China, where people were bringing mantas and a particular species of shark close to extinction trying to profit from the species’ valuable body parts.
To mitigate problems, we can expose the people driving these

animals to extinction and stop their actions. We can do this by making it illegal to serve delicacies that will eventually result in the extinction of a species or giving people alternatives to their lifestyles (Indonesia, for example). To help solve this problem, I should start thinking that one person can really make a difference. I liked the quote, “it is better to light one candle than it is to curse the dark,” I think it applies to the matter at hand. I will do my best to go meat-free for at least one day a week and even encourage my friends and family to do the same. I could also carpool, or become more energy efficient. The production crew did a lot to help. They produced this amazing film and hopefully it inspired people to change humanity’s cruel ways one step at a time. The film made me feel alarmed and made me realize that if humanity does not change its ways, my generation will just pass its problem to the next one. We, as a species, need to get on this issue right now and not wait any longer, we already have procrastinated far too much.