Global Warming In Elizabeth Kolbert's The Forest And The Trees

The Forest and The Trees Individuals are always changing the world which they live in to find their best fit, their comfort zone. Humans do whatever changes they want to in order to meet their needs. Global warming in particular are one of these changes which is caused by the burning of fossils fuels that adds acidity to oceans and infinite carbon in the atmosphere. Author, Elizabeth Kolbert portrays the notion of destruction through global warming in chapter eight, “The Forest and the Trees,” of her book, The Sixth Extinction. Kolbert argues, “In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this,” (Kolbert 150). This explains how global warming affects the cold species in that when the temperatures rise and it is very warm, the North and South poles will change their …show more content…
Kolbert states, “As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and the richest at low latitudes. This pattern is referred to…as the ‘latitudinal diversity gradient,’ or LDG,” (Kolbert 152). To support and explain this ideal, more 30 theories have been advanced, of one is that more species live in the tropics so they can produce more generation only at lower latitudes with which will create more mutations and higher chance of evolution, development. Kolbert and Silman search the forest, finding various, unique new tree and plant species which is possibly because of competition. Kolbert wanted to know what happened and what it was like for the coexistence of the species living in the same space which is why he went to the forest to observe the wide range of life being affected in the