Animal Spotlight

So this week I am going to share some animal pictures just because they are so awesome and need some recognition. The reason why I chose these specifically is that they are each being encroached upon, either by a diminishing habitat or just because humans think they are too dangerous.

1. Grey Wolf

After being off of the Endangered Species list for a short while, the grey wolf was put back on in August 5, 2010. Despite being on the list, grey wolves are still hunted because they disrupt farms.

2. Polar Bear

Polar Bears are slowly becoming extinct. Not only are the ice caps melting away, therefore causing the bears to drown and starve, but their genes are being lost in the Brown Bear genome.

3. Snow Leopard

There are about 6,000 Snow Leopards in the wild, although their numbers are difficult to count, and are under threatened status. Their numbers are low due to scarce food and poaching.

4. Arctic Fox

Although the arctic fox fairs better than the others on this list, two arctic fox population are at a critical state because the market of furs and the result of canine diseases originating from dogs.

7 Billion and Counting

Did you know that you are one out of seven billion people and counting living on Earth?

The babies dubbed the seventh billion are symbolic, symbolic of destruction or symbolic of prosperity. Even so, nothing is being done so humanity will not reach their population maximum. China has restricted the number of children you can have, but what about Europe or America, where babies are still unregulated. Soon there will be eight billion and it wont stop there. What will happen when humanity reaches its max because there are already signs of strain on the planet?

With these seven billion people on Earth, hundreds of million are advocating for more tax on the wealthy 1%, a few others are trying to stop fracking and a smaller percent is protesting the Keystone pipeline in the US. What has seven billion plus all of the people that have died accomplished?

Well the boomer generation has created the largest carbon footprint compared to any other generation. They created the giant trash vortex that is now the size of two Texases. Each American family has at least two cars and buys a new car at least every 5 years. Life has become a game to utilize all of the people and make a profit at the lowest expense possible.

At the same time, humans have initiated some of 905 species and 784 from 2006 extinctions and cut down the Amazon rain forest at 25 to 50 acres a minute to accommodate the massive market of seven billion and counting.

At the rate that humanity is expanding what will happen? It seems unrealistic that seven billion of any organism, especially if it the size and expenditure of a human, can exist without destroying the environment. The Earth is already suffering from Global Warming, specie extinction and natural disasters. What do you think?