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THE SIX EXTINCTION Ch1

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l  fact of endangered frogs

l  connection from All Over Creation to The Six Extinction

-- are you actually helping?

-- contact zone –people, people, plants

l  sudden disappear of frog

l  mass extinction

l  accessibility to general public

l  why are they dying? did we do this? did they do this? –speaking from outside

l  p13 fungus

l  (all the volunteers are frog lovers)

l  p14 “something awfully sad about the painted green hills and the fake waterfall”

-- taking creatures from nature to peoples’ space

l  extinction happening rapidly

l  “great survivors”

-- you can go out and find extinction

l  are we “madmen”? indirectly killing them?

l  people don’t really see it

l  animal abuse? help species? (repopulate)