IB7 Help Save the EARTH and its ANIMALS

During my last eye opening topic exploration blog, I decided I was going to go the animal endangerment route. However, I realized it had to be revised a bit because of three reasons (abc’s):

a)      It was way too broad of a topic

b)      It did not have a specific proposal of action for the reader

c)       Did not mix my “oil supply”/ environmental topic from my previous two papers

So I decided to revise it JUST a bit and fix my problems as easy as abc, 123 as Michael Jackson would say in his song. So my OFFICIAL topic proposal is the following:

The topic is “the slaughtering of animals and destruction of habitat that is harming the environment because of companies, unbeknownst by the public, in order to increase the profit of their products.”

Even though global warming is affecting the habitat of species around the world, the destruction of habitat by humans for profit is much larger. The lack of information presented to the public based on the tragedy of the commons refers not only to oil supply but to animal endangerment as well. In order to increase productivity, businesses hurt animals in the process that are not necessary.  For example, dolphins used to be slaughtered unmercifully in tuna fishing, since tuna are dolphin’s favorite food. Therefore, instead of setting them free and losing tuna in the process, they decided to simply kill the dolphins to up their profit. Now, in response to this dolphin genocide, dolphin-safe tuna is now available by a seal of approval on tuna cans. However, many of these cases go unknown to the public still. I will call for the audience to simply make safer choices for animals and the environment with what items they purchase for example.

 

THe doplhin safe label as shown above is found on cans of Tuna if you look.

 

 

A Dolphin stuck in a fisherman's net.

 

 

 

The slaughter of dolphins on a boat for TUNA catching. Yes those are REAL guts coming out (I flinched while pasting this on here.)

 

The audience I would direct this to would be environmentalists who enjoy reading environmental news and also people who are not informed of how much power the consumer has in changing the world’s environment. I would like to post this “Paper 3” in www.theenviornmentalblog.org which is a blog that environmentalists “guests” are able to send a submission to have their blog posted in one of the categories.  I would also like to post it in a more “everyone can see and learn” area, so I was thinking either on facebook or a social media blog to teach about little ways to help the environment through purchases.

 

 

 

 

The format I would like to use to convey this topic to the audiences is a blog format of an article. I would like to integrate free-form writing with pictures and perhaps some video clips. This would greatly assist in integrating pathos in my argument. Since the disturbing truth of what injustices are occurring and have the horrifying pictures influence their want to make a change (As shown above with the merciless dolphin killing). On the other end of the spectrum, the pictures of baby animals bringing in the awwwhs and the cuteness factor (WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS COULDN’T LOVE a blog like article integrating baby animals!!!!) (P.S remember the power point that was emailed to you with all of those animal pictures? Remember the pictures in the other ones? OH RIGHT. You don’t.) Therefore, the pictures could also bring a memorability factor as well.

Please Enjoy the following cuteness of wild baby animals on me:

 

P.S Yes the last ines aren't wild but they ashowed up when I googled, baby animals, and I just HAD to include them!!!