Reader Response: The Butterfly Effect and the Enviornment: How tiny actions can save the world.

In this article, Brian Clark discusses the importance of the animal, the butterfly. While reading this, I found out many new things about this creature that I knew next to nothing about before. It explains how the butterfly effect is a term that has leaked into popular culture because of time-travel stories, but whats its actual meaning refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions to chaos theory.
The butterflies that most of us know as being beautiful creatures that fly around aimlessly really do effect our world more than most of us would think. A particular point of emphasis with talking about butterflies importance is biodiversity; biodiversity itself protects us, humans from effects of agricultural catastrophes like the Irish Potato Famine, the loss of species results in significant changes in natural habitats that can hurt us badly down the road. As we all know the enviornment is not getting any better anytime soon, these butterfly effect is similar to that fact that tiny changes we make will indeed make a difference. Some possible ways that the article suggests is: cut out bottled water, use compact flurrescent light bulbs, buy a new monitor for your computer rather than upgrading a more less enviornment friendly lap top. This article really put alot of things into perspective about changes that need to be made to better our world, I hope everyone can go out and do there part.