| Killiana1a said: Makes sense as the human population is growing, the habitat for animals gets smaller and smaller until extinction occurs. Even worse is the phenomenon happening to male frogs where pollutants in the air are making them infertile. Frog species are dying out at an unprecedented rate. The problem is many of these scientists come from 1st world countries such as the USA, Canada, Japan and countries in Western Europe. To the aspiring farmer in Brazil or Indonesia, the arguments from the scientists come across as telling them and their families to stay in poverty because rich, American and European tourists want to spend a few weeks there on vacation. The fight for environmentalism is multi-faceted. Public opinion for the most part is in favor of curbing practices that promote mass extinction of symbolic species such as eagles, wolves, lions, tigers, elephants and on. The harder battle is getting citizens in emerging economies to change their lifestyle in order to accomodate the world for all of God's creatures. |
Frogs aren't dying out because of humans. It's due to an extremely interesting fungal pathogen. It's very unusual for a pathogen that is so virulent not to kill itself by wiping out its local population.
To be honest, I don't think the scientists give a fuck about the rich tourists. The scientists do give a fuck about bio-diversity and eco-systems though. I can see how the people in those countries would have that opinion though.
