Friday, December 11, 2009

Animals Can Tell Before Disaster Strikes

There is evidence to support the fact that animals can sense things before we can. Earthworms come out of the ground before an earthquake, sharks flee the shore when there is a tsunami, birds waited to fly south when there were a series of hurricanes in Florida. There are many more examples of this in an article on mongabay.com. I found this very interesting in itself but it is also interesting in another way. For all of those people who do not believe that the Earth is in danger, they should look around them at the animals. We are in a period of mass extinction, marine life is in danger, biodiversity is decreasing, the rainforests and the creatures that reside in them are disapearring. It should be obvious that the animals are trying to tell us something. They are basically screaming at us that there is going to be a disaster if we continue on this path. We would not be able to exist without animals so not to care about animals is the same as not caring if you have water to drink. An example of a lack of biodiversity is monoculture when there is not enough biodiversity. This can lead to disaster in the form of a food famine. Having a lack of biodiversity led to the irish potato famione, the european wine industry collapse and many others.

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