In Vandana Shiva’s article “what is biodiversity and why it is so important”, she claimed that mankind are the main cause of species extinction and changing of natural environment. On the other hand, in the article Hope for animals and their world, the author Jane Goodall, Gail Hudson, and Thane Maynard states that there is hope and it is never too late. This article consists of several stories, and each story has an individual or a group of people who has energy and dedication to make a change.
The stories show that changing the environment for the animals is not an easy task. It involves millions of dollars and hundreds of man power. Take Paul Rokich, who restored forests to a mountain in Utah, as an example. For fifteen years, he work mostly alone, every evening, every weekend, year after year, he carried buckets of grass seed up to mountain and sowing. However, without the help Kennecott Company, spending millions of dollars cleaning up its poisonous emissions, Paul would never success to achieve his goal.
Uncle Ben said, ‘with great power, comes great responsibility.’ With no power comes with no responsibility. A wolf would eat every deer they can until the deer became extinct, and then it starves himself to death. Human is doing the same thing in a much larger scale such as deforestation or polluting rivers and lakes. However, Examples in Goodall’s article show that there are people that are not short sights. I believe more and more people will realize that if they continue destroy the environment without thinking about the consequence, they will become a victim of their action eventually.
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