Old dusty museums! We love to see giant skeletons of long lost creatures. What do you see when you look at a dinosaur or a mammoth? Extinction came to them because it is a natural process, right? All species must die sometime. Our Earth is always changing- the continents are moving, volcanoes are erupting, climate sometimes gets colder, then warmer, and on it goes.
What can we do about today's extinction crisis? It is the first time in the history of life that a species on Earth can actually prevent the extinction of other species! We humans are animals too. We can save what has taken some 5 billion years to create. Every species is a masterpiece- a Rembrandt or a DaVinci. It is not an asteroid or a comet colliding here, or massive lava flows. We are the cause this time and we need to bring back the balance in nature. If we don't we will be the species that is extinct and we will take down many species along with us. We lost the dodo, the great auk, and the quagga, now it is time to turn this around. When I see a dinosaur skeleton, I see an amazing opportunity!
Top image above: Daspletosaurus skull at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
Second image above- Hawaii volcano from the US Geological Survey
Bottom dodo image created by Mike Leveille
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