Places I want to save/preserve

The most obvious of all places to save, I think, would be the world's rainforests. getting cut down for land for animals to graze on and stuff, and subsequently, destroying the wild animals' habitats. Many animals are endangered because their habitats are being destroyed, and I do not approve of that at all. It's just not cool.

"Biologists have estimated that large numbers of species are being driven to extinction (possibly more than 50,000 a year; at that rate, says E. O. Wilson of Harvard University, a quarter or more of all species on Earth could be exterminated within 50 years) due to the removal of habitat with destruction of the rainforests"

Next up, the Polar Ice Caps, which are melting fast, and thus making the sea level rise, all due to Global Warming.

And this also fits in with the destruction of habitats part that I mentioned earlier when talking about the rainforest. Because obviously, the polar bears live on the ice, and if that's disappearing, there's less room for them, and where are they gonna live after that?

This chap right here is not enjoying global warming one bit. He's like, oh no!

Poor baby.

"Over the past five years, studies have found that melting Antarctic ice caps contribute at least 15% to the current global sea level rise of 2mm (0.08in) a year. "

I think that this is one of my favourite images about global warming. I've looked at this image before in my main blog while talking about visual syndoches and such, but still. I believe that showing the world as the yolk of a frying egg is a perfect visual metaphor for what's going on with climate change.

I wish we got Time Magazine here in the UK, if only for the covers.


Next is the English countryside. It's not in a particular amount of danger at the moment, but is always threatened by industry and expansion of cities. The English countryside is beautiful, and something that the British pride themselves on, and really, not something I want to lose. It's something I want to preserve.

"Tranquil countryside declined by 20% between the 1960s and 1994"

The Dead Sea, in Jordan, is a highly endangered location due to Global Warming. Combine that with the constant human interference of tourists, the Dead Sea is shrinking rapidly! I know that it's a huge tourist attraction, and it might make me a hypocrit, but it's something that I want to see myself. I'd love to visit it. But at the rate that the Dead Sea is evaporating, scientists believe that if Global Warming continues at the rate that it is, this amazing place could be gone in around fifty years.

"due to irrigation and human intervention, the Dead Sea is shrinking at an unprecedented rate, and according to experts, will completely evaporate in approximately fifty years"

Last but by no means least, Venice. Again, Global Warming and rising sea levels combined with the city's crumbling foundations, Venice is sinking. It is listed as another of the world's most endangered locations. The crumbling foundations, we can't do much about, but Global Warming, well we can try. Venice is certainly a place I would love to visit before it sinks.

"Venice, which rests on millions of wooden piles pounded into marshy ground, has sunk by about seven centimetres a century for the past 1,000 years.

But the U.S. study says that it has subsided 24 centimetres in the past 100 years.

However, Venice's mayor Paolo Costa says the report is inaccurate, although a study carried out by the city authorities concedes it will sink between 20 and 50 centimetres by 2050."