Racing Extinction: Documentary Analysis

The documentary "Racing Extinction" was first released January 25, 2015. Some of the people involved in the documentary are Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, along with activists and scientists. In "Racing Extinction" pathos, ethos and logos were used frequently. The documentary is about how most of man can is trying to take over other species need for the world to work properly.
In the documentary pathos played a great part in the film. When they saw an animal with no fins that was struggling to survive, they realized that it is really unfair for humans to hurt an animals and potentially end an endangered species. In the film Shawn Heinrichs went so see a fin shed that had tons of shark fins and documented what they saw with their hidden cameras. Shawn states about fourteen minutes into the film, "So many and this is for the movie jaws." Shawn immediately published the pictures in a newspaper. …show more content…
Cows are a form of carbon dioxide. They provide more greenhouse gasses more than anything . " one cow can produce 55 gallons of methane and now there's roughly 1.5 billion cows on earth." This can lead to a mass extinction like the paravian which killed all he species on earth. Still to this day methane has been locked away in the lakes. We should be prepared for the worst. The end of human kind can be closer than everyone thinks. Another example of logos was the more humans try to better their life they more they hurt the whole world. If one thing is missing on earth the chain that humans use to live with soon be gone. Jane Goodall a primatologist stated "In 200 years people will look back to this particular period and say to themselves how did those people at that time just allow all these amazing creatures just vanish". Without these animals humans are destined to have an empty world. Amazing animals are needed for the humans to continue living . Human kind will eventually take over and be left with nothing to