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Participation Week 4

Participation Week 4

Q Two parts 1. Mass Extinctions - Read through the entire lecture and then click on the New York Times article about mass extinctions. Then spend 15 minutes studying and thinking about the Red List figure that I have inserted at the bottom of the lecture for week 4. React to the image. Describe what the image does for you and how it makes you feel? What does it say about our current situation? What do you want to do about it? 2. The Race Card I would like you to take part in the following exercise. Go to this website and do the exercise. http://theracecardproject.com/Links to an external site. As part of our participation points - this is all I need. The Race Card Project: 6 words, one sentence -- Make your own race card! Submit it to the website and to the class! Use the posting for participation. Remember: You post something on your own. And you make an intellectual comment on someone else's post. This is how you gain full credit.

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• The red list is quite a scary image to look at. To think that humans have caused this much damage to the Earth and animals is shocking. I think I am most surprised by the statistics regarding flowering plants. I had no clue only a third aren't under threat of extinction. Our situation is definitely a time bomb, and it doesn't help that our first job is convincing the population that there's actually an issue worth caring about. The majority of us normal people can only make small changes towards a more sustainable, green life, and hope that these small changes from all of us can compound to make some beneficial changes.