By definition, the word extinction means the state or process of a species, family, or larger group being or becoming extinct. This is a process that although occurs naturally, can be affected by humanity and can leave negative effects on the ecosystem and the world live in now and today. Several people step up to lead the fight to protect endangered species all the time, people have several ways of getting others to awake to the sincerity of the situation. One way this is done is of course by written word, Author Julia Whitty and Biologist Jeff Corwin both show their interests in protecting wildlife and preserving animals at risk of extinction in their own ways. Although their approaches to how they convince the people to stand alongside them …show more content…
Whitty begins her piece with what seems to be a lengthy anecdote about a friend of hers named Les Gibson who wanted to reach her how to hunt which she called fishing. At a beginning glance it’s confusing to a reader who is expecting the author to dive into something related to the environment or how some kind of species is slowly or rapidly dying off and how we need to save them, instead Whitty takes her time to tell all the details of her learning how to hunt and her actually hunting. Whitty even talks about Les and his wife Marie and how they are Guugu Yimithirr (descendants of Australians Captain James Cook). Finally, Whitty dives into the ocean of topics there are to talk about when it comes to animals endangerment and …show more content…
“There is a holocaust happening. Right now. And it’s not confined to one nation or even one region. It is a global crisis.” (Corwin 1). Corwin unlike Whitty doesn’t start off with a tangent but immediately begins discussing how wildlife all over the world is in danger and how humanity has had a huge hand to play in the current growing extinction of animals everywhere.Corwin himself talks about how he has traveled the globe and seen the atrocities at first glance, visiting Africa where the great white shark is being hunted down at an astonishing rate of 100M sharks a year. Or over in Indonesia where there are rivers that contain miles upon miles of raw sewage which can slowly kill off ocean animals, in the Pacific ocean itself there is an island of garbage “the size of Texas” (Corwin 9). Corwin’s piece starts off heavy and doesn’t let go whereas Whitty slowly dives into the message of her piece, then mentions a professor from OSU (Oregon) and a student of his and uses their research to form her own conclusions. Unlike Corwin, Whitty isn’t a biologist so where Corwin puts his own research and data, Whitty must find the work of another person’s and make a conclusion from said
Where does the line of sport and murder intersect in hunting? Is it when the species being hunted is able to reason? Or is it when the species being hunted looks just like the hunter? In both movie and film, we see a man fight for his life and another going against all codes of ethics. While Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s film adaptation both have several similarities, the difference are also apparent in each respective media.
“By the time we’re done, it’s quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us,” Kolbert deduces (225). Hunting a species has caused the endangerment and extinction of many species of animals and plants. Six out of eight species of the world’s bears are categorized as “vulnerable” or “endangered” to extinct (222). Advocating for rights of endangered species, and protecting the forests they habitat is a noteworthy method to prevent extinction caused by humans. As an individual, one could help by supporting and donating to organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the National Wildlife Federation, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and more (262). Humans may ease their conscience by not actively killing endangered species, but protecting them
“In this was one of the signal virtues of hunting: it puts the large questions about who we and the animals are, and the nature of our respective deaths, squarely before the hunter, and while I’m sure there are many hunters who manage to avoid their gaze, that must take some doing” (6). This quote is ultimately Pollan’s conclusion after his reflection on disgust and death. Specifically, the phrase “large questions” is hard to read without wanting to further investigate. The audience is left wondering that if there are such large questions, why Pollan would not attempt to go about answering them, but instead continue with the remainder of his story. After such a temporary reflection, the rest of his hunting narrative loses most of its excitement because of the magnitude of his claim. He does attempt to reflect on the issue, but the brief way he does is also extremely similar to the way many hunters briefly think of the complications of killing an animal, and continue about their hunting outing without giving such ideas a second thought. If Pollan’s goal of this article was to engage his audience with this then he definitely succeeds, but if his goal was to frustrate his audience than he succeeds at that as well. By leaving the argument he presents up to interpretation he leaves a lasting impression on his audience. The frustrating and confusing issue that results from this
Did you know even though nature can be beautiful it can sometimes be deadly. In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford begins to see the awe-instilling power of nature and how it can hurt us. The Most Dangerous Game Written by Richard Connell is a story about the dangers of nature and the ethical question of if we should kill animals. Connell uses irony to instill a question in the mind of the reader”Is killing animals moral?” In “The Most Dangerous Game,”Richard Connell uses a flip between man and animal to convey irony in the story while also using the dangerous environment of the Island to show suspense.
David Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals: Meat Eaters and Steve Irwin’s Africa’s Deadliest Snakes are wildlife documentaries that have similar but different purposes. Attenborough uses a script that is rehearsed and the natural environment is followed, Irwin does not have a script and the animals are disturbed. However, both hosts inform the audience of the animal and how they function. Attenborough achieves this through the use of language and Irwin achieves this by being the presenter. Purpose, audience, context, language and form will be compared between the two texts.
David Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals: Meat Eaters and Steve Irwin’s Africa’s Deadliest Snakes are wildlife documentaries that have similar yet different purposes. Attenborough’s has a script that is rehearsed and the natural environment is followed. Irwin’s does not have a script and the animals are picked up. However, both hosts inform the audience of the animal and how they function. Attenborough achieves this through the use of language and Irwin achieves this by being a presenter. Purpose, audience, context, language and form will be compared between the two texts.
Rachel Carson, a noted biologist, published “Silent Spring” in 1962, and isn’t shy to express her feelings about the violent interactions between man and nature. In the passage, it is clear that her purpose was to emotionally engage the reader with vivid descriptions, and to appeal to logic by reporting facts and exposing the death resulting from pesticides.
The first and second part, taking a natural history approach to the subject of relationships between humans and nature, discuss his experiences on the family farm in Wisconsin and other various portions of the world. Furthermore, the detailed accounts of various flora and fauna species, how harmful farming has been to the soil and the destruction of nature from recreational activities, introduce Leopold’s argument that humans, even unconsciously, have been harming nature for a multitude of years. The third part, applying a philosophical approach, takes these events into account and analyzes the various destructions that humans have caused. In the chapter “Thinking Like A Mountain,” Aldo Leopold recounts the hunting trip that he took part in when he was younger. As he watched the light fade from the Wolf’s eyes, his group of friends believed that they had helped the deer population’s chance of survival. Instead, by destroying the top predator of the mountain, the deer population grew out of control and harmed the mountain’s ecological environment. From this example, Leopold uses the situation of the she wolf to explain to his audience that man’s influence in nature, no matter how beneficial it is to one species’ survival, always has consequences to
Many great authors that study human nature stood out the most during the period of time between the Imperialism and World War II. Among these authors were George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Their study of the human nature is especially visible in certain short stories that each author respectively did. Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth.” In either of these stories the respective author uses animals to depict their complex ideas about the nature of life, men, and the whole world.
The beginning of the short story serves to introduce the reader to Rainsford's character, primarily through indirect characterization. His friend, Whitney, provides the reader with information through speech detailing Rainsford to be an expert hunter. The author shows Rainsford as not caring at all for what the hunted animals feel; however, this likely changes
Who wouldn’t want to see a Wooly Mammoth traipsing across the tundra, or see witness and laugh at the odd sized Dodo Bird? Although the spectacle of witnessing such animals is certainly fascinating, it is this attitude that makes the practice of de-extinction, in my opinion, morally incorrect. Reviving a species solely for entertainment purposes is inhumane. And due to the fact that releasing a revived species into the wild could be disastrous, the animals would have to reside in zoos, where humans could gawk at them for the rest of their lives. And if they escaped, well, we might have a Jurassic Park situation in our
De-extinction is a process that has been experimented with for many years, but has never been completely successful. The ethics and consequences of this idea have been questioned but, de-extinction has the potential to be truly helpful to humans and the environment, and many of the scenarios that people think could happen, are actually impossible. To actually revive a species, there are certain conditions that must be met, and the terrible situations that people think could happen, are unable to actually occur because of the lack of . Bringing species back that are beneficial to the environment could preserve biodiversity, restore diminished ecosystems, advance the science of preventing extinctions, and undo the harm that people have caused in the past. The true potential of the revival of species cannot be realized because people overdramatize the effects and possible outcomes. Once we realize and understand how beneficial the process of de-extinction can be we can better improve our world, our lives, and our ecosystems.
...he environment. Back then whaling had to be evenmessier and was not good for the water to leave parts behind, or take away an animal from it’s natural habitat for human use. uNowadays there are ideas of global warming that take o the same concept. People get mad because society as a whole does not take care of the environment. There are laws about littering and many activists groups that try to persuade society on how to live their life. In the end of this book nature won, but in the end of the world who will come out on top?
So what is an endangered species? What is an extinct species? What has happened to cause them to become endangered or extinct? What needs to be done in order to save the endangered species from becoming extinct? Can anything be done to save them? The answer to most of these questions is not known by everyone. With all the attention that this subject gets from the government or groups that fight for the environment, it gets the same amount of disregard from the public. Many people want to help or donate but very few of those actually follow through. This is a very important subject that needs to be taken serious by the public. It needs their full attention because they are the ones that can truly make a change. People really don’t understand the concept of extinction. If somethi...
Extinction is when the birth rate fails to keep up with the death rate, it is