Snow Storm Sociology

After the calming down of snow storm during spring break, I and my friends decided to go outdoor in order to explore what was going on and the impact of snow storm. The destination of this trip was around CU campus. It was very silent place due to the break time for students. Everyone might leave out of city to go back home or travel. Unlike me, I had to stay on campus, so there were lots of leisure. One idea came to my mind suddenly about how to be survived for living things into the worse condition as extremely decrease of temperature. Our team started to walk from Stearns Tower at William village to main campus. During the way, there was no organism going out to do their common activities or finding foods. We just walked around from C4C …show more content…
I also recognized that it was “squirrel”. It was pretty common to see many squirrels living around campus, but that time was snow condition. I thought it might be hard to keep life over intense condition, and the same thing for this squirrel that might die soon according to its factor. I would really sad if I saw like that. In fact, I was surprised while we were looking closer and closer, squirrel quickly jumped going to its shelter and being safe. From this observation, I understood several thoughts and sociological concepts relating to the situation I just explored. The massive problem people are still encountering with is “climate change”. Its alteration on weather negatively influences for not only any species of plants, animals, and humankinds, but also overall biodiversity. Rainforest regions the weather would be hotter, and near North and South Pole regions would conversely be colder. Compare to the situation in Boulder, even if the season began to be spring, there were lots of snow falling in this region intensely. I could apply sociological idea as one impact we could easily know from climate change is “animal species population regression”. The population of squirrels in cold weather zone that I was interested basically decreases. When I deeply tried to research more about main causes, the information demonstrates that those species were threatened by natural phenomenon, human activities and absolutely climate change. In the same situation, I would also like to bring scientific concept to illustrate the observation clearly, and it is “Natural Selection Theory”. The theory mentions that just the better species, which are able to adapt into environment and nature, can survive and make evolution. In other words, if squirrels in Boulder region can adapt to intense low temperature condition, they will survive and produce lots of offspring later. Throughout this activity,