Over-Consumption: Negative Impact on Endangered Species
" Native plants and animals are going extinct at accelerated rates across the globe. While extinction is a natural process, the current extinction pace is at least 1,000 times the normal rate. This mass extinction crisis is due to habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, exploitation, proliferation of non-native species, and other threats. The fundamental drivers of the loss of biodiversity are human overpopulation and overconsumption."
- http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_ESA_listing
- http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_ESA_listing
Humanity is notorious for being selfish. Politicians worry about there incumbents, parents worry about their children, schools worry about their students and the government worries about its citizens but environmental activists worry about all of these people, the environment and every species that shares Earth. The quote above was posted on the website for an organization called Wild Earth Guardians. Their mission, as listed on their website, is to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American West. Tigers are not found, naturally, in the America's but nonetheless are also impacted by over-consumption in the U.S. As our populations grow, so does our need for more resources.
Humanity does not compete for resources, we simply take them without regard to pending consequences linked to our ecosystem, whom sooner than ever will not be as self-sustaining. The Wild Earth Guardians is an organization that fights to preserve endangered species and their livelihood in America. They are an example that we should follow because not only do we take more than we have to but we live to exhaust every resources. This organization is not against people and our right to live; it is against the abuse and neglect that we show day after day to our environment and its inhabitants.
We can make a difference by deciding to be aware of the resources we use, how we use them and even question whether we really need them. There are many organizations that promote the over-all health of our planet, join one and volunteer your time, effort and more importantly your life-style. There is a problem, us, and only we can strive for a better tomorrow where we allow nature to take a natural course, not an expedited course to the destruction of others.
Humanity does not compete for resources, we simply take them without regard to pending consequences linked to our ecosystem, whom sooner than ever will not be as self-sustaining. The Wild Earth Guardians is an organization that fights to preserve endangered species and their livelihood in America. They are an example that we should follow because not only do we take more than we have to but we live to exhaust every resources. This organization is not against people and our right to live; it is against the abuse and neglect that we show day after day to our environment and its inhabitants.
We can make a difference by deciding to be aware of the resources we use, how we use them and even question whether we really need them. There are many organizations that promote the over-all health of our planet, join one and volunteer your time, effort and more importantly your life-style. There is a problem, us, and only we can strive for a better tomorrow where we allow nature to take a natural course, not an expedited course to the destruction of others.