Moose Be Gone!

 The article "The Disappearing Moose" can be found on The New York Times website under the date of October 16, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/opinion/the-disappearing-moose.html?ref=globalwarming&_r=0



Global warming has caused the increase in temperature which is detrimental to moose because the need cold autumns and springs to protect them from winter ticks. Winter ticks populations flourish in warm autumns and early,wet springs. This allows the ticks to cluster in massive numbers to the moose weakening them before winter when they need the strength the most.

This isn't just a slight impact to the moose population "one Minnesota population has fallen from 4,000 animals to fewer than 100" Moose aren't the first population things like this have happened to "It is typical of the kind of shifts that a warming climate is causing, tipping the balance in ways that favor some species and do grievous harm to others. It is the sign of an entire ecosystem caught up in changes largely brought about by human activity." While all of our advancements may be amazing for us humans the animals just can't take it. 

This article reminds me of the Lorax. In the Lorax the Oncelers pollution makes the environment impossible for any of the animals to live there. This is what we're doing to our environment making it impossible for animals to keep living here because there's too much pollution. The animals can't adapt quickly enough to these rapid changes in the environment.

I thought that pollution was bad but I didn't think it was getting this bad this quickly. I think this shows just how urgently people need to start changing their habits to help stop pollution. If we just keep going along with the massive amounts of pollution we're putting in then we will quickly lose our environment and many, many animals that can't do anything to help themselves will die.