Lost and Gone Forever...

In Environmental Science class we were asked to read an article in the New York Times website and give our opinion on the matter. As this assignment was given to us online, I missed it. I managed to talk to the professor and he agreed to let me email it to him today and so I did. Curious to read my crap?

Here is the New York Times article titled "Lost and Gone Forever" by Richard Conniff.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/lost-and-gone-forever/

This is the last minute opinion I wrote:

Lost and Gone Forever

I think the author made a few good points about how many human beings are oblivious to the fact that extinction is possible and that it could happen on any day and at any scale. While many people are aware of the possibility of extinction, even more are completely clueless and continue to leave huge ecological footprints.

Although many people know of the dangers we pose to nature, humans still carry on with activities that are harmful to nature and all of its living-creatures. We have discussed in class about the destruction of natural habitats to make way for human development. Although some may say that they are unaware of the circumstances, many choose to turn a blind eye on this issue and pretend as if nothing has changed compared to how it was many years ago. 

Restoration of an ecosystem to its original state may be an impossible task, but rehabilitation may also be harmful to the environment. By trying to rehabilitate certain ecosystems, we are introducing a species that is alien to that particular environment and we may not know what effects it may have on the surroundings. We may be able to replace a predator species with another into an environment but the fact that both are different types of animals may change the way things go about in that environment. That’s why it is best to preserve all living-creatures as it was before if possible. That is the only way.

We must all realize that we are driving our planet down a very dark path and start finding ways to change it. If we refuse to see it as our ancestors have hundreds of years before us, our world and our situation will only get worse and we will suffer along with all the other living creatures on Earth.

Was it as bad as I thought it was?

Great news! I did score an 83% on my American Government exam. What a shocker...