“I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades” (Leopold 140).

I like this analogy because it is a good representation of the destruction humans have caused to our environment. Humans are extremely overpopulated because they have no natural predators. It’s weird to think about it that way but the only predators we have are with the technology we create: cars, boats, planes. We destroy and exploit the environment so that it is no longer there. If humans did not exist, the earth would continue to thrive, but if humans continue to exploit the earth for its resources, the effects of climate change will continue to get worse.