Comments on: Designing a Penguin Wetsuit http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/05/01/designing-a-penguin-wetsuit/ Science, Environment, and Nature in the SF Bay Area Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Maggie Zeng http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/05/01/designing-a-penguin-wetsuit/comment-page-1/#comment-62054 Maggie Zeng Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:44:40 +0000 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/05/01/designing-a-penguin-wetsuit/#comment-62054 It is an interesting article! However, i am curious about why humans always try to humanize the animals? Why does the penguin need the suit? Yes, the penguin needs the wetsuit because it needs warmth, but what caused it to loose its feathers? Humans try their hardest to make change--not necessarily all bad-- to nature, but then, nature is all messed up. As a result, humans have to make more changes to try to solve all the problems that occurred. Thus, everything gets tangled together. From an environmental point of view, if humans want to help the earth (according to GAIA hypothesis, it is actually helping ourselves.), we should really try hard to change our habit instead of changing other living things to suit our needs. Because if we keep changing everything except ourselves, all of us would be in danger. It is an interesting article! However, i am curious about why humans always try to humanize the animals? Why does the penguin need the suit? Yes, the penguin needs the wetsuit because it needs warmth, but what caused it to loose its feathers? Humans try their hardest to make change–not necessarily all bad– to nature, but then, nature is all messed up. As a result, humans have to make more changes to try to solve all the problems that occurred. Thus, everything gets tangled together. From an environmental point of view, if humans want to help the earth (according to GAIA hypothesis, it is actually helping ourselves.), we should really try hard to change our habit instead of changing other living things to suit our needs. Because if we keep changing everything except ourselves, all of us would be in danger.

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