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Okay, I have a dilemma and definitely something I think that one should think about. I’ve been watching planet earth lately. I finished the first season of scrubs and this is the one other thing that I have kicking around to watch during these rainy days.

Okay, so planet earth. I am watching the one that talks about the future. The impact that humans are having on earth, the environment, animals extinction, and so on. So this leads me to my dilemma. They are talking about animals that are going extinct and a certain type of leopard. There are 30 leopards left. They have a few in captivity, in a zoo and they have taken the DNA and frozen it. Then they go on to talk about cloning and so on and reproducing these leopards in the future after they go extinct. So then, what makes it right for humans to clone these when we haven’t even perfected cloning yet? And why should we clones these after they extinct? We played a part in their extinction why should be try and undo our mistake? What about the circle of life? There are a million questions that I have about this and Katie and I have talked significantly about it. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I definitely understand trying to protect endangered species from poaching and doing it in their natural habitat but why must we always bring them to zoos. (I don’t know if you can tell but I am not a fan of zoos at all) I don’t know this episode just really got me thinking about the environment and animals and earth and all that and I don’t even know where to start when thinking about it. I mean what about the 100’s of species of frogs that are going extinct or the plants or the bugs? We need those too but you never hear about those. You hear about the big animals, the elephants, tigers, rhinos, etc.

Something that they do address in this episode is poverty. They talk about dealing with poverty in these countries before they are able to address the conservation of animals. They say that it is hard to go to a family and ask them to consider the future and saving these certain animals when the family is dealing with how they are going to feed themselves that day. People that want to deal with conservation of animals and address that issue also need to improve the well being of the people that live in the areas where the endangered animals are.

I don’t know if this is only something that makes sense in my head and not at all when I write it out but it is something that is important and something that does need to be addressed. Plus this is something non rambly and simple. There’s a lot more thought in this than in my usual blog posts.