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The Extinction Of The Passenger Pigeon In The Pioneers By James Cooper

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In James Cooper’s novel The Pioneers, Cooper highlights the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. At the beginning of chapter 22, the author describes the weather as rapidly changing. This instance could be a slight reference to early global warming. Global warming is a popular topic in 2017 and has been in the public for more than a decade. According to a BBC News article from November of 2013, the earliest of global warming speculations occurred in 1712. (bbc.com) This was well over a century before The Pioneers was published, making it possible for global warming to be mentioned in the story. Another event mentioned is the killing of the birds. The villagers saw the killing of the birds as a sport and even sold the bird’s heads for cash.
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