You might think going to a zoo is actually helping our world in many ways, since people have jobs being paid, people find enjoyment, and specieas all over the world are perserved. Well, that’s not exactly true.

a lemur by fatedsnowfox

There are a lot of sacrifices zoos must make in order  to maintain a “certain” type of species. It might even involve the risk of extinction of another animal. In this article, and gives a great example of this senario, only that people have now pointed this out to the public.

Really, scenarios like these are very difficult to explain, or manage themselves, because of so much people who want to preserve a bunch of animals for the future. We all know zoos must spend lots of money to make room for other animals, especially when it’s a problem enough managing the animals they already have. The “big” message here is obvious to me, and it’s that people really need to make big sacrifices in order for them to conserve something of large, even for zoos, governments, the Red Cross, and World Relief.

It teaches me that, you can’t save everything in the world, you can’t actually save the whole world from something, it’s cause there’s just too much people with too much opinions and needs that effect the issues we need to take care of. Though it might not sound that important to people, that a couple of species of lemurs might not be able to be saved from extinction. But it shows how, we as people, react to these types of things, or how we solve them.

It tells us that it’s much more harder than it already is to make a change in the world, or somehow effect/replace how life on this earth works.

After reading this article, it made my mind think how much more important or dangerous a reporter’s job can be, especially if you are in a  place where lots of serious things start to happen.

Trees in Cambodia by iied

So in this week’s article “A Cause– and Questions– in Cambodia,” really does brings out a lot of the article, (as I trying to emphasize the idea of Questions being brought into this topic). To explain easily, a reporter/activist named Chut Wutty and two other people, Mathieu Young and Vannarin Neou were working on a investigation on illgeal logging in the country of Cambodia, and when a nearby armed man open-fired near Chut Wutty’s location, Chut Wutty was shot, leaving life with his two friends fleeing and unprotected in the area.

It was lucky that his two friends had ducked in cover just in time before they were shot by the men.

Surely, I can obviously point our many questions to this incident. Like, how did the shooting start? Were much more people involved with this? Are there reasons why our two reporters aren’t given a much better insight on the scene? And why did the man fired, or who fired first?

But what I started feeling a lot more about this incident was the thought of someone’s life as a reporter/informer/activist could be so dangerous.

Before I’ve always thought crowds with lots of protesting really came from researching and start standing in a crowd to tell people what is going on.

Well, I can also say there were SOME other things that involved a lot more desperate things, but this “issue” seemed less serious yet was somehow taken to the point where a man was killed.

But I never knew a job like this just to get people informed could have involved such dangerous risks. I realized some activists have to go this far just to tell people what is going on in their country. I felt that Chut Wutty was more like a sherlock holmes in this article, when really he was just another man who wants change. Probably, everyone wants a change.

As seasons past, the color of the leaves start changing by tidefan

Now that I’m basically finished about getting most of my points across, one final thing I would like to write down for you readers is that sometimes people just need to know more about ourselves, the world, and basically the people all around us. The one thing humans should NOT do is NOT get involved with everything. Sometimes, stuff like Kony, or your regular neighborhood gossip, is something you should, always consider. That is the problem with us. We don’t consider the problems or issues people have around us, which is the reason why not just a single person can make a change, cause what’s the point in making a change when no one else in the world but you considers about it?

You want a change in people, you get people to know, and become open-minded for people to let you learn about the problems and issues they consider something to change.

Diigo

I’m pretty serious about this mutation, it will really start to add… extraordinary features to the regular average fish. In this article, the BP Oil Spill Aftermath, by the Gizmodo site, shows how an oil spill that happened around a year ago, effects the physical features of the average sea creatures making them even look more vivid looking creatures.

To tell you the truth, I might be exaggerating the part where fish takes a huge leap for evolution. Instead, sea creatures actually take a huge leap towards deformation.

That’s right. Now for the past couple of years, our pollution has been finally effecting the environment, specifically species of this earth, and now we have solid proof of it. Fishermen have found out that many sea creatures have examples of deformation like missing eyes, defects on their gills, and even holes in the shells of crabs, and the list goes on. And when the environment is in most need of our people to undo our environemtal mistakes, but what does the government do? Nothing, because they just don’t want to admit their pollution has been finally violating one of their own rights as humans. 

Even though it might bring shame and dishonor if they went to go clean it up, meaning it was their fault it was there, just at least help the earth that has once raised men.

It’s a strange reason, yes, and it’s also a nuisance for people who really care. But I also have to give some slack to their government, because they must be so busy with everything else, and just can’t come and clean up the messes they’ve made. It’s almost like a child, refusing to clean up after his or her toys.

Though, this exciting event really brings out a lot of questions for FDA, EPA, and NOAAs on just how one oil spill effects a huge amount of the fish population. What were they polluting? Why were they even polluting, in the first place? Or was it because of the mixtures of past oil spills happening in the area? And why can’t they just clean it up? If we knew answers to these questions, maybe we would be able to clean up this gulf and help the environment for once. Maybe we can even fix the problems they had done to these sea creatures with defects on them.

This may should pretty untrue, or just unbelievable to think about. That for once, someone has actually polluted our waters, and that person isn’t doing anything about it. Are we just going against our own beliefs, about our environment? Or against our earth? Why can’t we just clean it up?  Are humans that ignorant of their pride?

When I read about this, the first thing that popped into my mind was the movie Simpsons, and that crazy foretelling that Grandpa Simpson keep calling out, “EPA, EPA, EPA, EPA!!!” I just wished that our people today were exactly like the people in the movie, even though they all seem like really silly idiots. At least they cleaned up their environment, until one part of the movie… Or at least the EPA cooperation did something to prevent Springfield’s pollution to not spread.

I’ve always kept thinking about this, and now I would really like to share it. I always seem to think, us humans, are the most dominant or most powerful race of this earth. But none other creature, not a bird, or lizard, or ape, conquers us. If we had the power, tiny as the fish, and the fish were the dominant, we would see through they’re eyes. And they could be polluting our air to breathe, we would eventually have breathing problems or die, or become defected, or deformed, or more of imperfection. And there’s nothing we can really do about it, because we are not the dominant. And if the dominant had cared about us, then there’s a chance they might not worry about us, and don’t even care about us. And maybe they actually eat us,  just how we eat them.

Diigo Notes