jennanm

jennanm t1_itw6w3j wrote

Yeah, as someone working on a Conservation Ecology degree and going into fieldwork with all manner of critters, the effects of the unavoidable climate change we're staring down on ecosystems worldwide will be horrific. Any plants or animals that are not suited to the rising temperatures (often species that are already threatened in one way or another) will have a much harder time in the wild. Think of images of the polar bears on melting bits of ice in the Arctic, reports of escaped pet snakes gorging on every alligator egg they can find in the Everglades, the breaking news concerning the Alaskan snow crab population completely collapsing in the last two years alone.

Our native wildlife can't compete against everything humans are throwing at them, and the crabs are just the start. I can assure you there will be many more from where that came from, all over the world, because we as a species are hellbent on destroying this entire planet so severely we'll have to fuck off to Mars in the end or something.

I went into this degree because I want to help save the most critical and vulnerable pieces of our ecosystems, to keep us and everything else out there in the wild healthy and happy. At least I know now I'll have no shortage of demand for what I do.

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