Biodiversity Loss In The Walking Dead

“The Walking Dead” series depicts a viral pandemic that destroys civilization and leaves the smallest portion of humanity struggling to survive. In this world, the remaining humans are driven by fear of those whom have been turned into zombies by the virus. While a zombie apocalypse is probably an unlikely eschatological occurrence, the end of life as we know it is surely not. Although it might be difficult to envision a world without clean water, enough oxygen for the masses, and with a viral pandemic plaguing humanity, it is not a farfetched vision. In our world today, “the walking dead” are not zombies on a mission to terrorize humans; the walking dead are millions of plants species, animal species, and ecosystems that are quite literally: …show more content…
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis had published a study entailing the impact of biodiversity loss, in which post doctorate Fellow Jarrett Byrnes claims, “Habitat destruction, over-harvesting, pollution, climate change and more all contribute to the loss of diversity of life on Earth. If we want to slow the rate of human-caused diversity loss, we need to tackle these problems head-on.” Too much fishing and too much hunting are obvious causes that we have been warned about for years. Urbanization and habitat destruction are other common sources to point our fingers at. Humans are always driven to seek out greater financial advances, and so it seems that nothing will get in their way of fulfilling this goal. As we continue to alter natural landscapes, we are consequently also negatively altering the ecosystems that they inhabit. Tropical rainforests are a financial goldmine in terms of the space they occupy for potential amenities; but more than half of the worlds’ species reside there. To make cropland, prairies, and parking lots is not a justifiable basis to affect the natural processes of millions of species, and disrupt total ecosystem …show more content…
A world in which there is inadequate oxygen and an accumulation of carbon dioxide. A future without access to plentiful food, but plenty access to parking spaces. Not to mention, this future for which we are developing is not one that is habitable. We do not have immunity over human extinction. Although loss of biodiversity and extinction may not be the sole factor contributing to human extinction, it plays a huge role in a disastrous loop that we are building. Theoretically, total human extinction would not be from an immediate disaster; it would be a marathon disaster. It would be from each small issue weighing down another aspect of life that is preciously intertwined within each other. Life would worsen overtime, eventually leading to a degraded planet Earth with a lack of humanity stemming from the lack of