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Chapter 4 Armando Peralta
Chapter 4 builds off of the concepts that chapter 2 and Chapter 3 discussed by describing a scientists attempt to prove the most popular ext...
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Elizabeth Kolbert starts chapter 9 by talking about her trip to Reserve 1202 in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. She describes ...
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In chapter 9 of the book, Kolbert talks about the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments or BDFPP, founded by Thomas Lovejoy. This ...
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In chapter 13, Elizabeth Kolbert goes to the Institute for Conservation Research near the San Diego Zoo. Researcher Marly Houck...
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ReplyDeleteIn the Prologue, Kolbert talks about how the earliest living things survived because they were able to migrate and reproduce faster. This kept them alive and allowed their numbers to grow unlike other organisms who weren't able to breed as fast. The creatures that survived were strong and able to adapt to new organisms in their habitat for example rats. Most of the organisms that went extinct because of the emergence of new organisms were animals that had always lived in isolation and never had to deal with others.
ReplyDeleteKolbert then begins to talk about the growth of humans and how they began to impact the environment of these organisms. They begin to cut down trees for resources which throws off the balance of the organisms' habitats. Overtime, humans continue to disrupt the climate, move organisms away from their home, pollute, etc. All these led to a continuation of extinction at a faster pace.
Response to the Prologue:
ReplyDeleteThe prologue of the book provides a stark contrast between the status of mankind in the past with our survival lacking a guarantee and the current status of mankind flourishing as one of the most dominant species on the planet. However, the dominance of mankind has asserted itself beyond just guaranteed survival and has now established itself as a disturbance of the chances of survival of the other biological species residing on this planet. Kolbert's mentioning of the biosphere, the collective amount of biological entities on Earth, and how it is constantly reassembled by human activity such as deforestation and industrialization really resonated with me because of the fact that this is the first impending extinction caused by an entire species rather than an abrupt environmental change.
(E)- Based on the prologue of the author is introducing the topic of the sixth extinction.
ReplyDelete(Q)- Is the sixth an extinction of human population or the mammals left on earth?