This is not to say all humans are this way, as many humans try to conserve the natural world and all of the organisms in it; there are however, a select number who do such irreparable damage to the natural world by developing everywhere they can, that they run animals out of their natural habitat and force them into a new location that might not be optimal for resources for the animals. We see daily through people hunting animals to study them, “devoted masters of birds drawn from the life/ Must gather their flocks around them with a rifle/ and make them live forever inside books.” (Wagoner, 13-15). I agree with Wagoner that we, as a species, take the lives of other animals for granted for our own personal gains until they no longer have a fighting chance with life. This is crucial because as more species become extinct at a rapid rate, this could have permanent effects on food webs and food chains that include humans, but we haven’t taken the time to think that far in advance yet because even though we are very self centered beings, as a species we lack the ability to avoid making changes that have damaging long term consequences to the planet and life on
This is not to say all humans are this way, as many humans try to conserve the natural world and all of the organisms in it; there are however, a select number who do such irreparable damage to the natural world by developing everywhere they can, that they run animals out of their natural habitat and force them into a new location that might not be optimal for resources for the animals. We see daily through people hunting animals to study them, “devoted masters of birds drawn from the life/ Must gather their flocks around them with a rifle/ and make them live forever inside books.” (Wagoner, 13-15). I agree with Wagoner that we, as a species, take the lives of other animals for granted for our own personal gains until they no longer have a fighting chance with life. This is crucial because as more species become extinct at a rapid rate, this could have permanent effects on food webs and food chains that include humans, but we haven’t taken the time to think that far in advance yet because even though we are very self centered beings, as a species we lack the ability to avoid making changes that have damaging long term consequences to the planet and life on