Butterfly Lessons - What Can Be Drawn From the Well

What can be drawn from the well that is Butterfly Lessons?  This article sheds light on a number of subjects ranging from climate change to the invasive species that is the comma butterfly.  Man has shaped Earth for centuries, either directly (i.e. Alexander the Great connecting the eastern part of the Aegean Sea with Tyre, which was once its own island) or indirectly; those changes have had either no effect or great effect on the Earth as a whole.  One of man's greatest "contributions" to the Earth was climate change.  As the earth warms up, life forms all across the globe are attempting to adapt.  Species native to an area are moving to other more favorable areas that can support them, as opposed to their indigenous homes.  Elizabeth Kolber, author of Butterfly Lessons, argues in the article that climate change is changing the way animals interact with their environment, in terms of ways of reproduction, the changing of diets, etc.  The iron-clad rule of this world is "only the fittest survive" and has thus far not been disproven.  Kolber notes that mosquitoes in parts of the United States and Canada are actually prevalent year-round, while they once before died during the winter.  "As the climate had warmed, those mosquitoes which had remained active until later in the fall had enjoyed a selective advantage, presumably because they had been able to store a few more days' worth of resources for the winter, and they had passed this advantage on to their offspring, and so on."  There's no doubt that everything will change, with perhaps no hope of reverting back what the Earth once was.

My project deals mainly with the scarcity of water; that topic, however, delves into others that deal with not only humans, but the environment.  Butterfly Lessons finds its link with my project there.