Conservation

When animals go extinct, it can cause a major change in the world around us. It can also effect things such as the water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and phosphorous cycle. Certain plants and animals are need for different jobs to make the cycle of life continue. Without animals such as the puma, fairy shrimp, polar bear, killer whale, and the grizzly bear, the worlds cycle can be changed for the worse. If the main predators such as the puma, polar bear, killer whale, and grizzly bear were extinct, it would off balance their prey, and those who are predators to them. I think it is very important whether species go extinct because it keeps the cycle of life working smoothly and God put them here for a reason. I think we can help the conservation effort in various ways such as spreading the word and making several donations. If DCA can raise 1.9 million dollars over a short amount of time, imagine how much we could make to save the species over a long time period.

The Day My Life Was Almost Taken

One experience that affected me deeply is when I almost fell off a cliff. Three years ago, my family was asked to spend the weekend on our friend’s house boat. We jet skied, went tubing, and went cliff jumping. It was my first time to cliff jump and I was very excited. When we arrived at the cliff early in the morning, people were already there jumping off into the water. I was a little nervous the first time climbing up, because there was only one point on the cliff you could jump off without hitting rock at the bottom. I made it up and jumped off. It was exhilarating. As soon as I hit the smooth water, I was ready to jump again. I went several more times, had lunch, and was ready to go back. This time, on the way up my foot slipped. My life flashed before my eyes, and I could already feel the sharp rush of pain through my body. I closed my eyes, ready for the fall, when I felt someone grab me, and pull me back into the wall. My heart was pounding. I turned around to see Mr. Chris smile at me, and I continued climbing up the cliff, never to climb up again. I will never forget the day that my life was almost taken by the sharp rocks beneath the water.

Overpopulation Crisis

Overpopulation is a major crisis in the world today. It is stated that by 2050, the world will have reached up to 9 billion, when the world’s carrying capacity is only estimated at 9 billion. There seems to be no humane way to stop this crisis, or is there? I have come up with three ways to help prevent overpopulation, and I would like to share them with you. I believe China is somewhat on the right track with their belief that only one child should be born to each family, but I strongly disagree with mandatory abortion if another child is conceived. I think the most practical way to prevent overpopulation, without abortion, is for each individual to think practically, and limit themselves to how many children they conceive. There is only one problem with this, what if you want to have more than one, two, or even three children? This is my solution, therefore, my second point. I think a possible way to prevent children from being aborted, but stop overpopulation, is for scientists to create a birth control “virus” that spreads worldwide, in a controlled way. This means that one has the option to have a child, for that is our nature, but this so called “virus” would not allow more than one, or two children be conceived. In this way you would not be harming anyone, for it is not killing off anything, it is only making it so that the egg and sperm cannot come together as one. This would have to be created in such a way that it is not harmful to anyone, and in a way that can be controlled. A third way to stop this would be to make people aware of the problem, for I know that before watching these videos and being aware of the carrying capacity of earth, and the number of people living on it as we speak, I was unaware that there even was a overpopulation problem. I think with more people aware, they would help stop it for the generations to come. It overpopulation is not stopped soon, it will be too late. This will damage the environment, from global warming and extra waste that would not be here if it weren’t for the extra bodies on earth. If overpopulation continues, there will be less air to breathe, for the rainforests are being destroyed every second and with more people on the earth, the rainforest would be destroyed at an even faster rate. Another effect from overpopulation is the competition for food would become even greater, for food would become even scarcer.

Food for Thought

Today during our Food for Thought lab, I was very surprised to see how insane the food to people ratio for each country really is. I was very surprised to see how many people Asia really had compared to North America, but they had only a fraction of the food. This really made me think how greedy we, the people of North America, are. It was a very upsetting fact that people in Asia needed more food to support them than we did, but we owned and wasted more food than they had.

My Neighborhood

I live in a friendly neighborhood. It is full of young children, and many older couples. Everyone helps each other out with babysitting, dog walking, and taking care of others houses while they are away. For instance, when my family is away, my neighbor takes care of my three dogs and walks them constantly. Everyone practically knows everyone, for most of the people in my neighborhood are active up at our neighborhood clubhouse with the many holiday parties, and swim team activities. My neighborhood is a wonderful, friendly place to grow up in.