The world's population is on its way to seven billion. Not only are their harsh effects for the standards of living for humans but animal habitats are being destroyed. Human activities such as mining, transportation, pollution, agriculture, development, and logging are all taking away habitat from wild animals as well as killing animals directly. These activities also contribute to climate change which threatens even the most remote wild life habitats on this planet as well as our own survival. More than 80% of the world’s old growth forests have been destroyed, wetlands are being drained for real estate development, and demands for biofuels take arable land away from crop production. Life on earth is currently experiencing its sixth extinction, and it has been estimated that we are losing approximately 30,000 species every year. The most famous major extinction was the fifth one, which occurred about 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The major extinction that we are now facing is the first that is caused not by an asteroid collision or other natural causes but by a single species: human beings.
My question to you is: Is it possible for human beings to slow down overpopulation and protect wildlife? What needs to be done?
Something to think about:
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