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The more our population expands and industry seeks to make profit then we will encroach upon native animal habitats and so the end result is the slow and inevitable reduction in some populations until they simply become extinct.
Darwin is quoted as saying that "It is not the most intelligent or knowledgeable species that will survive it is the most adaptable"
So those native species that lose their habitat and food source through land clearing etc etc will simply become extinct if they cannot adapt to other resources.
Extinction is bad, and we should care. Albert Einstein said that if bees became extinct, the human race would have 4 years before we became extinct ourselves.
We certainly do, and that includes ourselves. Partly due to the expanding global population we continue to ''appropriate'' and destroy the natural habitats of many animals, hunting various species to extinction for food or sport and contaminating the earth with our industrial and human waste matter. Yes sirree Bob, we selfish, greedy, thoughtless and filthy humans represent the biggest threat to the future of the world.
Well, we obviously do: we can't get away from the fact that we are destroying animal habitats, hunting animals for their resources, and many more cruel things, all of which are killing animals by the second. How can you say we don't contribute to the extinction of animals when you eat pork or fish or something like that at least 5 times a week?
Well you can't simply blame the humans for animal extinction sometimes lack of poaching leads to the overpopulation of one species and extinction of another,besides people adopt animals and create animal-care centers to protect the endangered species so definitely,we don't contribute so a very high degree
Plenty. How is that relevant to whether or not humans contribute to the extinction of animals? If we, by our actions, caused even one species to go extinct, then that would be a contribution.
I fail to see how we do not contribute to a high degree, considering we have entirely annihilated those species in question. And that's not even taking into consideration those that are becoming extinct due to the effects of Climate Change.
Climatic changes are not the sole reasons,when a big herd of elephants plunges a family of lions into deep starvation by occupying the water sources,the cubs die and their population falls.Sometimes birds like vultures die when struck by a lightning,many natural sources are responsible humans alone can't make other species extinct
Climatic changes are not the sole reasons,when a big herd of elephants plunges a family of lions into deep starvation by occupying the water sources,the cubs die and their population falls.Sometimes birds like vultures die when struck by a lightning,many natural sources are responsible humans alone can't make other species extinct
As I have said before, I never claimed we were the sole reason. The topic of this debate is if humans contribute.
"The rapid loss of species today is estimated by some experts to be between 100 and 1,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate, while others estimate rates as high as 1,000-11,000 times higher."
Yeah Cartman is right you should take it to my chin,as I've said nobody can point at humans alone for the rapid rate of extinction-poaching is not the sole reason,there's something called the life cycle and if humans are responsible for the extinction of some species then some other would've made us extinct but that's not the case.Humans contribute but to a lesser degree than natural phenomenon
You keep saying nobody can point at humans alone for extinction, but that is not the topic of the debate. Please, look up the word contribute, because it does not mean sole responsibility.
That being said, there are species that, without human hunting, would not have even been endangered.
All human life relies, in one way or another, on animal life. Though the absense of some species would have a smaller affect on the human race than the absense of others, all species affect us indirectly.
The Sumatran Elephant is critically endangered and the Asian Elephant, Borneo Pygmy Elephant, Indian Elephant and Sri Lankan Elephant are all endangered.
There's a fine line of difference between really endangered and to be considered to be endangered;the examples of Sumatran Elephant or Sri Lankan elephants fall into the second category and surely they are kept inside protected enclosures;
The Sumatran Elephant is critically endangered, and the Sri Lankan elephant is endangered. Both of them, particularly the Sumatran Elephant, are really endangered.
