Abstract

In this paper I talk about the importune of maintaining a balance on our environment, because everything has a reason for being there. Us as humans sometimes don't realize that even the most insignificant creature on this planet has their function on maintaining another living organism going. Sometimes we just by t take things for granted and don't care of the planet that has given everything to us. In my research I learned that 30% of all natural world has being destroyed by humans. Also that most of the animals that in danger today like the polar bear, the tiger, the vultures, and other types of animals are going to be gone by the year 2015 and by 2050 most of all living things would be gone thanks to humans that don't care an the natural disasters that have to do with the climate change. If we don't change now there's a possibility that we could be at a point of no return. So we should start doing something to be away from all Disaster that our wrong way of thinking can bring us.

Recipe

Spinach with Straberries Salad !

Ingredients

• 2 bunches spinach, rinsed and torn into bite-size pieces
• 4 cups sliced strawberries
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds

Directions

1. In a large bowl, toss together the spinach and strawberries.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, sugar, paprika, sesame seeds, and poppy seeds. Pour over the spinach and strawberries, and toss to coat.

Peer Review Sources

• Lubchenco, Jane. "Generation and Maintainance of Biodiversity." Biodiversity and Human Health. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, 15 May 1996. Web. 03 Mar. 2010.
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• Turning to medicinal resources, a recent survey showed that of the top 150 prescription drugs used in the United States, 118 are based on natural sources: 74% on plants, 18% on fungi, 5% on bacteria, and 3% on one vertebrate (snake) species. Looking at the global picture, approximately 80% of the human population relies on traditional medical systems, and about 85% of traditional medicine involves the use of plant extracts Destroying other life forms also disrupts the web of interactions that could help us discover the potential usefulness of specific plants and animal.

Faith, Daniel P. "Biodiversity." Stanford Enciclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, 2007. Web. 21 Jan. 2010. .


Biodiversity is all species, ecosystems, and all living things that create this planet.Biodiversity is the process of which the every works and how they develop over time, and through out their environment needs, Biodiversity also links to the DNA and all humans, because there is a lot of diversity between the human population, if their wasn't any diversity at all we all be equal and we wouldn't be able to develop properly. All living things are important in a certain way to maintain an equilibrium and to maintain the environment flowing as is suppose to.

What would happen if we dont change the way that we take care of our planet ?

The Earth’s population will probably be 22.2 billion!

The Earth’s temperature will be 1.4 to 5.8 °C higher than it is today. The ice at the North and South Pole will melt and the sea level will rise by 9 to 88 cm. Cities at or below sea level will sink.

Half of the Earth’s plants and animals will disappear along with the tropical rain forests.

We will use up all the Earth’s natural resources. People won’t be able to survive on Earth, so they will have to find a new planet live on.

The law will oblige families to have no more than one child, and this will reduce the Earth’s population to two billion.

People will use environmentally-friendly energy sources like the sun and the wind, which do not pollute the air, so the Earth’s temperature will not increase.

Strict laws will protect animal and plant species from extinction.

A population of two billion people will need fewer natural resources, so there will be enough food, water, etc. for everyone.

http://www.priweb.org/globalchange/bioloss/bl_04.html

Annotated Sources

BIODIVERSITY

Faith, Daniel P. "Biodiversity." Stanford Enciclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, 2007. Web. 21 Jan. 2010. .


--Biodiversity is all species, ecosystems, and all living things that create this planet.Biodiversity is the process of which the every works and how they develop over time, and through out their environment needs, Biodiversity also links to the DNA and all humans, because there is a lot of diversity between the human population, if their wasn't any diversity at all we all be equal and we wouldn't be able to develop properly. All living things are important in a certain way to maintain an equilibrium and to maintain the environment flowing as is suppose to.



Shah, Anup. “Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions.” Global Issues, Updated: 01 Dec. 2009. Accessed: 20 Jan. 2010. http://www.globalissues.org/article/171/loss-of-biodiversity-and-extinctions



--Human activity has being one of the causes that extinction is happening, they say that current extinction rate is now approaching 1,000 times the background extinction rate( before humans exist) and its going 10,000 times the background extinction rate during the next 100 years. As we see the contributions that humans are making to the extinction of the earth one-third to two-thirds of all species that live in this earth are going to die.



The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) notes in a video that:

* 1 bird out of 8,
* 1 mammal out of 4,
* 1 conifer out of 4,
* 1 amphibian out of 3, and
* 6 marine turtles out of 7, are all threatened with extinction

A new global study shows that 90% of all large fishes in the world have extinct thanks to industrial fishing in the last half century.




Shah, Anup. “Nature and Animal Conservation.” Global Issues, Updated: 26 Jul. 2009. Accessed: 20 Jan. 2010.


-- A report shows that 30% of all natural world have being destroyed by humans. The ecosystems have become more difficult to help to survive. Many animals have being dying and its getting harder to repopulate these animals. Some animals that have being affected by this are: The tigers with a 95% probability of getting extinct by 2010, the lions have being decreasing in Africa compare to the 1980’s when there was 200,000 lions. The number of Rhinos have also decrease by the humans that want their horns and now they have no protection, The vultures in India in the past 12 years the population if this specie have crash by 97%, by eating the drug animals that the farmers have, and they have poison the vultures. The polar bears have die thanks to the pollution, oil exploration, hunting, as well as climate. And many other animals have die with the negligence that we have by not taking care of the animals and all species that surround us.

BIODIVERSITY AND GLOBAL WARMING

http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/sowb/pressure/46.html


The Earth is undergoing profound changes to its climate. There is now little doubt that this results from human activities, mainly the burning of fossil fuels. These recent changes are different because they are taking place faster and are unlikely to be reversed by natural processes.The effects of climate change on biodiversity are far-reaching and operate at many different levels – from individuals to ecosystems. At the species level, climate change affects particular species in different ways. It may alter their distribution, abundance, behavior, penology (the timing of events such as migration or breeding), morphology (size and shape) and genetic composition.

Shah, Anup. “Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions.” Global Issues, Updated: 01 Dec. 2009. Accessed: 20 Jan. 2010. http://www.globalissues.org/article/171/loss-of-biodiversity-and-extinctions



--Human activity has being one of the causes that extinction is happening, they say that current extinction rate is now approaching 1,000 times the background extinction rate( before humans exist) and its going 10,000 times the background extinction rate during the next 100 years. As we see the contributions that humans are making to the extinction of the earth one-third to two-thirds of all species that live in this earth are going to die.

Socratic Seminar

In the article Farmer in Chief I learned that America is trying to closed down the farms and putting products that are not real anymore, like the fruit that we eat and the vegetables we put in our food. Now days people prefer eating fast food than taking something to work or school, we want something fast and cheap. What stroke me the most was that even though our health is bad, we still prefer unhealthy food than buying something that is going to make us better. In the article i read that four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.

To stop this from happening we have to go to the doctor, but since the government is charging to much we dont have the money to go, and if we go to the doctor we dont have money to buy healthy food wich means that we have to eat fast food in order to go to the doctor, but what we want is to be healthy, but either way we are not getting there, so we prefer to stick with the fast and cheap.

Also in this article we see that we are using chemical fertilizers when we can use the sun, we are waisting money that we could use in something else, and we are paying farmers to grow corn soybeans and rice, when we could be paying for vegetables and fruits. With the meat we are also doing really bad, we are getting stuff that wasn't feed well and the price goes lower, because the cost to feed this animals was cheap also. But people buy it because they don't know where it came from, they just care for the price.

If we keep doing what we are doing with the food, in a few years we are going to be having wars not for land but for the food that we are letting go by not taking care of it.