TASK2：Now many people think that spending too much money and time on protecting animals, they think the money should be better spent
on human population, hou much extend you agree or disagree?
（这里特转贴吴建业在英文早报发表的文章）
Topic: Due to global warming, deforestation or various other reasons, more and more animal species have been pushed to the brink of extinguishment. Some people claim that it is not worthwhile saving these endangered animals. To what extent do you agree with the above statement?
AGAINST
1. Extinction can be a natural evolutionary process.
2. Nature has operated by the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest”.
3. Life forms that cannot keep up with newer species will always risk extinction.
4. It does not make sense for us to concentrate on other species when humanity has not yet sorted its own welfare out.
5. Because of their inherent weakness, some animals should die out and be replaced by hardier species.
6. There’s no point in spending large amounts of taxpayers’ money on biodiversity policies when we have more pressing needs, such as health care and social services.
7. What matters more than anything is that humans are permitted to have the best standard of life on earth, while that privilege lasts.
8. Would you preserve the Dinosaurs if they were alive today?
9. Becoming extinct is a natural course of events. Extinction occurs naturally as part of the process of evolution.
Words and expressions for the topic：
AGAINST
extinction灭绝
a natural evolutionary process自然进化过程
Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest”达尔文的”适者生存”法则
life forms 生命形式
risk extinction冒着灭绝的危险
make sense有意义 humanity人类
welfare 福利、幸福
inherent weakness天生的缺陷 die out 灭绝
pressing needs 迫切的需要
social services 社会福利事业 privilege 特权
Dinosaurs 恐龙 extinct 灭绝的
a natural course of events 自然的过程
process of evolution 进化的过程