by Brady Hanson

Created on: February 18, 2010   Last Updated: February 19, 2010

There's many people that would say that the money is going to a good cause. Ask yourself this, the money I'm spending on animals that are going extinct because of the poor environmental choices I make daily is a good idea, or should I take that money and concentrate it on environmental friendly items such as: electric cars, LED light bulbs, switching over heat, picking up trash, recycling, or even purchasing a bike to get around.

People are forking out money daily for animals that are all going extinct because of the choices their making daily. What's the point of giving out money to a failing cause? There will always be animals going extinct because of the climate change. Did you know that 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth are all extinct by now?

We are the select few that have been able to reproduce and survive. Now that more animals are becoming extinct, it's making more room for different species to adapt and change to the climate we've been facing. 

Next time you decide to hand out money, you should tell yourself that once you hand over this money, you're going to start helping in the global warming cause. The main reason our animals and species are going extinct and out of control is because of the choices we have been making.

Everyone knows that polar bears are in deep trouble because their ice sheets are melting and their migratory routes are now open water which they can't swim in or they face the chance of drowning. Instead of controlling wildlife population, you should be funding wildlife to adapt to their new environments they will be facing.

Polar bears for example have already been trying to adapt, they're no longer hunting the seals on the ice sheets. They're hunting on open ground, on the beach where all the walrus' are mating.

They can no longer go out on the ice because it's either too thin by the time their done hibernating or because there's no ice to go out on. So they have to resort to killing walrus' on an open playing ground such as the beach shores.

Is this an example of how our species are changing over time? Something Charles Darwin has been proposing ever since his book "On the Origin of Species" was published. He said that things tend to change over long periods of time, maybe he was wrong about one thing.

I don't think he realized at the time how much humanity was going to mess things up in the future. Now instead of things changing over long periods of time, things are changing over short periods of time. For instance, North America is losing a species of bees that once populated every corner of the continent.

Now they've only been able to find a handful in Ontario National Park and near northern United States. This is an example of how these bees haven't been able to adapt to the climate change and have been eliminated from existence (survival of the fittest as Darwin put it).

All in all, putting money towards any kind of wildlife control or saving program is a waste. You should be recycling and doing things to help save our planet, that's the real problem here. Climate change is affecting our environment and the way we live. Since the last ice age, Earth has been rewarming herself, something that should take a really, really long time.

Now however due to climate change, this process has been sped up and that's why we're starting to see what earth used to look like before the ice age (North America the tropical place it used to be).

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