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Millions of Species are in Danger by Global Warming - Summary Response practice -

Millions of Species are in Danger by Global Warming

Shaoni Bhattacharya’s article, “Global warming threatens millions of species” explains why millions of species are in danger by global warming. According to the article, global warming will make extinct almost 25 percent of land animals and plants by 2050. So, all of the species are going to find new right places to live because of climate change. That means about one million animal species may ruin their life in recent days. Global warming changes may species’ habitats. Habitats are important to many species; if they loss their habitats, they will be endangered. According to Thomas and his colleagues, “Whole groups of plant and animal species confined to a particular region, for example, the Amazon, were evaluated” (2004, para. 11). Many species need certain conditions in their life such as temperature and rainfall. However, some of them may not move to find a new place; then they are going to live in the small area with many species, but a small area just can contain a few species, so they should watch out about that problem. In 2050, between 15 and 37 percent of species may be in a dangerous situation. People should invent new energy systems for other species.

She explains how affecting climate changes many species. Actually, climate change makes many species in danger. People cause climate change in many ways such as global warming and greenhouse gas. Many species will become extinct because of climate change. Climate change menaces their lives by making them lose their living area, lose habitat, and suffer from overexploitation by human.

First of all, many species will lose their living area. They cannot even live where they were from, because their original area is changing because of climate change. According to the author, “all of the species will be moving completely into new areas which become suitable for them” (2004, para. 4). They don’t want to move to find another suitable place, but they have to do that to live. In the case of Korea, our fish species are changing their seas; fishes are coming up from places in southern Asia such as Thailand. So some fisherman are bankrupt because the fish species are changed by global warming; they cannot catch the fish that they want. Our own fish species are going up to North Korea. Nowdays, it is big problems in Korea’s fisherman.

Next, they lost their own habitat. It is very inappropriate for them. The reason they lost their habitat is climate change. Some species are endangered because they lost their habitat. The author says, “The World Conservation Union’s Red Book lists between 10 and 30 percent of species as endangered under due to habitat loss” (2004, para. 8). It shows us if the species are lose their habitat, they will be gone.

Finally, many species are overexploited by humans. For example, many people want to get sealskins for their fancy coats, so many seals are killed by people. Overexploitation is another big problem for many species besides climate change. People have to think about what they are doing just for people. When people kill some species, they use lots of fossil fuels and some other like that things. Moreover, people’s lifestyle is uses many bad things for nature, that may cause climate change. It promotes climate change some other ways. We are destroying nature for our own purpose, but we should remember, our life belongs to nature.

In conclusion, we should take care of climate change for other species. They lost their native area and habitat. If our lifestyle keeps going like this, people also won’t be able to on the earth. After the other species are gone, people may go. Climate changes do not directly affect our lives, but they will. So we should be aware of that problem in order to save ourselves and other species.


Reference;

Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07).
Global warming threatens millions of species.NewScientist.com. Retrieved October 16, 2007 from http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true

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