2017-10-22

Stop the Interference

When reading the chapter, "Nature Fights Back", the author mentions Kaibab deer. When I read this, it brought me back to my sophomore year biology class. We did a lab in which we measured how the population of deer would increase if it's predators were swept out and how the whole ecosystem would be affected by this as well since the food supply would run low, kind of like nature's form of checks and balances. Carson brings up the same example in this chapter and how we humans are unable to grasp this concept. We think that killing off a certain species will benefit another but in reality it woresens the issue at hand. We need to take every aspect into consideration when it comes to altering nature.
As a matter of fact, we should not interfere with nature for any reason. We should have never killed off the Kaibab's predators because that is a way of interfering with nature and it ended up taking a wrong turn. Nature is nature for a reason and it should be left alone to take its own course. We, as humans, think we are superior to everything else in the world, including nature as a whole. We believe that we can do what we want, such as spray harmful pesticides all over the land, and convince ourselves that it is totally fine to do this. It is necessary that we come to understand that we only have one world to live on so we must take good care of it or else it will soon be too late.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with what you're saying. I never really took the time to think about this stuff before this class, and I think it is good we are starting to talk about it because if not like you said it is going to be too late eventually.

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  2. I agree with you. being in this class has changed my views on nature and the earth, and it's crazy how the we as a human race think we can change whatever we want and not think about what the effects would be on nature or even ourselves.

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  3. I agree with how we think we are superior to the rest of the world but if we think about it without nature there would be a lot of things we can't do.

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