The Earth's biodiversity has drastically changed in the last 150 years and will continue to change in the next 150 years. Humans are the main reason for the Earth's biodiversity decrease. Because of our advancement and the rapid increase in our population we are taking habitat away from the wildlife and killing the environment. With the industrial revolution we started using fossil fuels and we became dependent on this resources. To this day we have become even more dependent on fossil fuels, we use them everyday mostly for travelling. We use so much of the Earth's resources that we are taking away necessities to the millions of species around the world. Since humans take out so much of forests at one time the land is not able to produce the trees at the pace we need. With taking away this resource we are taking away homes to hundreds of thousands of species. Because of the way we want to live the Earth's beauty is being punished.
Ultimately we need to learn how to change our lifestyles to live in peace with the environment. We need to only take the amount of what we need and not the amount we want. This will be a challenge because in our society we are used to the lifestyle where we take as much as we want without thinking of the consequences. We need to find alternatives to fossil fuels because we know in the near future we'll run out of this resource. We need to focus more on becoming environmentally friendly to stop or at least reduce our destruction on the world's biodiversity.
I agree we need to learn to live together with the environment instead of just destroying it. Eventually, we will need the environment that we destroyed. We are part of it too, anything we do will affect us too.
ReplyDeleteGreat post sarah I agree, we need to conserve resources because in the future we won't have enough to survive. Like we said if everyone started living the way we do. Then we are gonna be in big trouble.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your blog posts and the comments, we all agree on the impacts of human actions on the environment and biodiversity. We are depleting our resources such as fossil fuels, water, and oil. We need to change our ways to create more green initiatives in order to preserve our environment and biodiversity.
ReplyDeleteChanging our lifestyles will be the biggest and most drastic step we as individuals will need to take part in. We are a very selfish species and in order to make a change that will actually count we need to make it a group effort.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas Sarah, declining biodiversity truly is a devastating thing. It's what makes our planet unique and beautiful and it would be such a shame to see it go. Humans need to realize that the little things we do like littering do effect our environment and in turn the biodiversity of the future.
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