Speed of the adaptation

Speed of the adaptation

What is believed to drive evolution most is adaptation. All living beings try to adapt in the best possible way, to survive. They will change their body size, and color and they will trade diet preferences before moving to the more suitable terrain. Simple because having their piece of land for most of the animals of the predominant need right after basic needs like water, food, and reproduction.

Some birds changed color in response to air pollution. Industrial evolution in England back in the days made peppered moth change their color in response to the air pollution. The same happened with other insects, along with their body size change. Elephants born in areas where poachers are the greatest danger recently gave birth to babies without tasks. e see that many fish species slowly adapt to toxins in water as well as many birds. City birds will now rely mostly on food leftovers from humans because they realised this is the easiest way to stay fed and survive. Unfortunately, these birds and all the other “city” animals often develop diseases not common to those living in the wild.

Two years of pandemic brought us closer wild world since many areas stayed undisturbed by human presence. Now we can observe their activity and mark how adaptable animals become.

This short period was enough for nature to return to areas that we abandoned and it proves its capacity to reclaim what was always its belonging.

The question is how fast can humans adapt? We see economic growth but the rise in prices whether it is about commodities or essentials. There is an undeniable impact of environmental changes almost on a daily level with floods and fires, tornados, and other which changed the lives of so many families and continue to happen more frequently. It seems like humankind prefers to look at one eye, as long as it doesn’t happen to “us”, says everybody. But we are “us”, we are one with our nature.

Will nature find a way, shortly after we are gone? Now, I believe so.