E.O Wilson's Talk

I think after watching E.O. Wilson’s TED speech, the word “warning” trucked my mind. Mr. Wilson showed me the ignorance of human’s behavior toward other species which inhabit in our planet. E.O. Wilson stated that we are using HIPPO to destroy innocent creatures for our own benefits. He warned us with many good examples. He told us about the interconnectedness we have with insects. If one day humans destroyed all insects, the cycle between the two will break and all human been will be gone within a few months. Although this might seen forever because of the mass amount of insects that is still alive, but studies tells us that over the last 600 years we humans have already pushed over 44,000 varieties of bugs into extinction and that’s only because humans only just started polluting this earth. I read an article over the holiday about hermit crabs in Taiwan. Their habit is being destroyed cruelly from the pollution and there’s hermit crabs forced to use waste pipes as shells. If we continue to ignore this issue, the speed of species’ extinction will increase dramatically and the extinction of humans will come faster than ever.

During Mr. Wilson’s speech, he also talked about the little knowledge we humans have on our mother earth. It’s incredible that humans only know 16% of the species that lives among us. Sadly, without learning from them, we humans are already pushing them into extinction. E.O. Wilson tried to convince us to respect the animals and to spend more times understanding them. His greatest dream is to create an encyclopedia of life. The word encyclopedia basically means knowledge. He wish humans can have wisdom and to understand the natural. That’s why it’s call the encyclopedia of life. He wishes to include all living creatures that inhabit in our earth in the encyclopedia. If his dream really come true, human’s life will change dramatically. For centuries, humans have been learning from the animals around us. Our ideas mainly come from the animal kingdom. If we know all the species and protect them, our knowledge about all surrounding will increase and it will also teach peoples to take care of each others. The help it give is so wide that I can’t even imagine. After all, the main point is too take care of the environment and treat the species with all respect.