Unnatural Kingdom
The New York Times article "The Unnatural Kingdom" by Daniel Duane goes into great detail about the ways that humans have used technology to help save endangeres species. The startegies for increasing the population of endangered species include a lot of trapping and relocating, but the main tactics include predation prevention and animal relocation.
Within predation prevention, scientists use several mediums of technology to watch over endangered species in the wild to see just how much the species is killed due to the natural habits of predators that prey on a species. If a predator is killing off too many members of a species, humans will hunt and kill some of the predators to lessen this threat to the endangered species.
Animal relocation includes the movement of some animals within an endangered species to a different area in which they will be predicted to thrive in. In the article, an example of this inlcudes the harsh reloaction of 5 pregnant female sheep to an area with a low population of sheep. The female sheep were captured from their native home in nets and transported by hanging from a helicopter to a whole new environment, in which they gave birth in, adding to the threatened population.
In my opinion humans just need to stop messing with the natural world- I think these methods of saving endangered species originate clearly from guilt, and selfishness. If the bears in Italy didn't start to eat farm chickens, tear up commercial beehives, and intervene with humans, the introduction of collars and sensors would not be made.  But since I have to pick which method I think has a greater chance of success, I would say animal relocation. I say this because within predation prevention, the only threat against endangered species that is payed atention to is predators, but really there are other factors that decrease a population such as disease and habitat destruction. Plus predation prevention is just purely hypocritical; how does it make sense to kill off members of a species in order to save another one? Especially when the predatorial species isnt neccesarily doing anything wrong...since when is it so bad to eat your favorite food? In the case that population numbers of an endangered species are steadily dropping because they are all being eaten by a more fit species, use animal relocation! Provide a better suited envirnoment for an endangered species to thrive in.
Restored populations of big horn sheep will have less genetic diversity than they did 200 years ago because the present population of sheep have been made by the same small species of sheep, creating a low gene pool.
The restored populations should still be considered wild because they aren't domesticated, and they still live in the wild.

Public health summary:

Industrial Food Animal Production facilities are a major contribution to the lack of public health. Facilities can be harmful to surrounding areas because of the high water and air pollution, which are also factors of the spread of disease. Not disposing of waste properly will result in the contamination of nearby bodies of water, which will affect the health of people near and far of the facilities.

Enormous Yeilds: The development of farm machines such as mechanical planters, cutters, poultry incubators, and manure spreaders led to huge spikes in production and distribution.
Agriculture In The 20th Century: The Green Revolution increased agricultural productivity and scientists behind the revolution created chemical fertilizers and pesticides, that would later prove to have negative environmental impacts.
The Animal Production Farm as Factory: Innovation in technology and the easy availability of grain and efficient transportation led to the increase in animal production, which raised the number of livestock in high concentrations greatly. Breeders had to keep up with the growing rate of sales so the usage of specially formulated seeds that have synthetic compounds helped to sustain the intensive animal production.

Solution: Go vegetarian!!

 

Tar sands EROI

1. We should use tar sands first because they have a higher EROI
2. A similarity between the two processes is that both need to be heated in order to retrieve oil
3.  A major difference is that you get more oil from tar sands; natural gas is a big emission caused by extracting oil from oil shale
4. Offshore drilling will be smarter in the long run to reduce green house gas emissions because there is a higher EROI, this means we can produce more oil without using a lot of oil and/or energy to extract it
5. When doing homework, I always do the easiest assignments first because it takes the least amount of effort and most of the time I just don't want to dig into the hard stuff right away; I do the easiest things after school so I like to spare my brain to do the easy things first