It is important to note that animals are a part of our ecosystem, not only do they contribute to the ecosystem and help to balance the ecosystem, but they also have many uses in our daily lives. It is also essential to realize that ecosystems are undergoing constant change: Viruses strike, natural disasters destroy nearby communities, and species go extinct. In many instances, ecosystems carry on as they were, with some species making small modifications to their behavior to make up for the loss. Sometimes the changes are more drastic and the relationships between organisms are reconstructing. It’s a shocking thing to witness, organisms and ecosystems shifting around us, but this isn’t anything new. It’s been happening since the beginning of life. Not only are individuals attempting to restore nature to a balance that doesn’t seem to exist, but they’ve picked a rather a arbitrary point in time to return it to: the moment when people first started paying attention. The only species we are capable of resurrecting are those that we know went extinct, those large and common enough to leave fossils, and those that we watched die off. So you see a familiar cadre of de-extinction candidates on the list: mammoths, passenger pigeons, thylacine tigers. These are all big animals that we are sure used to be around because they are large enough to leave an impact on human culture—This suddenly is less about the species themselves and more about us. But why shouldn’t it be, if we’re the ones causing so much damage? Sure, people have caused many recent extinctions, as our species spreads and displaces others. And because we are aware of our actions, we have a moral obligation to try to not drive species to extinction. But to say that our extinctions are worse than any other extinctions is a display of narcissism. Extinction is part of
It is important to note that animals are a part of our ecosystem, not only do they contribute to the ecosystem and help to balance the ecosystem, but they also have many uses in our daily lives. It is also essential to realize that ecosystems are undergoing constant change: Viruses strike, natural disasters destroy nearby communities, and species go extinct. In many instances, ecosystems carry on as they were, with some species making small modifications to their behavior to make up for the loss. Sometimes the changes are more drastic and the relationships between organisms are reconstructing. It’s a shocking thing to witness, organisms and ecosystems shifting around us, but this isn’t anything new. It’s been happening since the beginning of life. Not only are individuals attempting to restore nature to a balance that doesn’t seem to exist, but they’ve picked a rather a arbitrary point in time to return it to: the moment when people first started paying attention. The only species we are capable of resurrecting are those that we know went extinct, those large and common enough to leave fossils, and those that we watched die off. So you see a familiar cadre of de-extinction candidates on the list: mammoths, passenger pigeons, thylacine tigers. These are all big animals that we are sure used to be around because they are large enough to leave an impact on human culture—This suddenly is less about the species themselves and more about us. But why shouldn’t it be, if we’re the ones causing so much damage? Sure, people have caused many recent extinctions, as our species spreads and displaces others. And because we are aware of our actions, we have a moral obligation to try to not drive species to extinction. But to say that our extinctions are worse than any other extinctions is a display of narcissism. Extinction is part of