2006-10-28 10:10:55 · 6 answers · asked by milmckee 1 in Environment
Everything becomes extinct eventually....but humans have sped up the natural process to an alarming rate. We are wiping organisms off the earth faster or as fast as we can even discover them. We are destroying habitat on a daily basis, leaving no where left for anyone but humans to live.
2006-10-28 12:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because humans are moral beings :) They feel sorry for poor creatures, especially that their extinction is very often the humans' fault.
And by the way, in some clever documentary a couple of years ago, I remember hearing that today's extinction rate is higher than the extinction rates of the late Permian catastrophe, when over 90% of all species are estimated to have disappeared in a relatively short period. I don't know how anyone calculated this, but if that estimation has even the faintest hint of truth, then we might be facing the most devastating mass extinction the world has ever seen. I wouldn't say that's a reassuring perspective.
2006-10-28 10:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, species did die off before man started "managing" them, sometimes whole groups of species at a time. Things have changed though. Now they are competing with rapid human development and population growth. Species are dying off faster now. Instead of one species a month, or whatever the rate was before, it's now one a day. Many of the more fragile or territory dependent just can't compete when humans move in.
2006-10-28 10:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by Ellen J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The concern is that the current extinction is caused by man.
2006-10-28 11:46:08 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History tends to repeat itself, and we are a species too.
2006-10-28 10:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Learn from the history of other. and to predict the outcome of future events.
2006-10-28 10:17:08 · answer #6 · answered by jdjustice8912 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋