A Destructive Civilization : Elizabeth Clark

The human race, being as greedy as it is, has greatly reduced this planet's lifespan by wasting resources, like water, on livestock, like cattle, that instead of helping this planet, are damaging it more by increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere worsening the effect of global warming, also causing major droughts like that in California and the drying out of water reserves. Our wastefulness causing the extinction of hundreds of species each day and gradually killing the planet itself. Man is unreasonable and we are the only organisms that hold grudges and feel the need for revenge because of our sense of consciousness. Twain explains this when he says “cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man in his descent from the cat, has brought the cats looseness with him but has left the unconsciousness behind. The cat is innocent Man is not.” We have a tendency to make decisions we know are not right only to try and make excuses for why we chose the way we did. Humans are natural born con-artist, some more than others, and if we get caught in the wrong we try to prove ourselves innocent all the while knowing you were

Near the end of Fight Club, Tyler and the narrator form a group called Project Mayhem, a group of highly trained, well disciplined men that are hell bent on the destruction of Western Civilization. A real life Project Mayhem does not need to be a symbolic grand show of force. It does not take such talent and dedication to destroy millions, if not billions of American infrastructure. A team of half a dozen men with no military or private training could easily disrupt the lives of everyday Americans with a little bit of coordination. To start, all that one would need to do to destroy a line of fiber optic cable would be to dig it up and bend it until it cracks. That would destroy about a mile and a half of cable. Then, the power company would

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud composes essentially to look at the relationship between the individual and society. Through Freud's examination of the relationship, a more profound comprehension of the intricacy of mental life is figured it out. Freud starts to add to the relationship ahead

There have been five major mass extinction on earth triggered by a distinguishable event, but in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert writes of the narrative of the sixth extinction caused directly by human impact. The book identifies the effects of human activity on how, over humans

This is the primary focus behind environmentalist movements of our time. Environmentalists try to take action in an effort to “save our planet.” But what if our planet doesn’t actually have to be saved? What if you were told that the Earth is actually going to flourish once we are gone? And all the efforts taken now to “preserve the Earth” were actually selfish deeds to ensure the survival of humans on this planet? Several post-apocalyptic works such as the novel The World Without Us by Alan Weisman and the CBS Television Series The 100 directed by Jason Rosenburg, describe the Earth as a beautiful prosperous sight after we are gone. In the book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman describes this flourishing natural world after the existence of human kind. He also describes the beautiful dominance that nature has always had on our world. The 100 provides amazing images of the planet 100 years after a nuclear disaster. With the acceptance of these thriving worlds described, our efforts should be focus on the survival of our own species so that we can continue to flourish. In order to ensure the continued survival of our species we must change our ways completely, preserve our resources and lessen the use of pollutants so that nature doesn’t prematurely over power our society.

By following the understanding of extinctions up to the present day, Kolbert addresses that extinctions are not strictly catastrophic or uniformitarian. Rather, by citing the major and minor extinctions such as the disappearance of the great auk the End-Cretaceous extinction Kolbert proves that extinctions have a wide variety of causes. Finally, with the grim depiction past and present day extinctions, Kolbert moves on to discuss the title topic: The Sixth Extinction. The term Anthropocene refers to the height of human alteration of the planet earth, which is thought to have begun during the Industrial Revolution. As humans dramatically alter the earth and its ecosystems, it is predicted that humans will eventually cause the sixth extinction if the current environmental trends continue. A combination of accelerated climate change, overhunting, deforestation, and natural ecosystem patterns have begun wiping out entire species at alarming rates. Truly, Kolbert emphasizes that all of humanity’s understanding of extinction is pointing to a devastating mass-extinction which could eventually affect the same beings which catalyzed

Annotated Bibliography Bambury, Brent. Scientists issue warning to humanity — about the growing middle class 1.1 (2017): Print. The article by Bambury echoes the scientists warning that human beings should stop destroying the environment citing that it will adversely affect their survival. The article states that humans are stewards of the planet

Never in the history of the human species have we been in such a rapidly changing environment. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, we have been making social, economical, scientific, and environmental changes and advancements at an unprecedented rate. Societal advancements, while much appreciated by the average Joe, have been detrimental to our environment. Every days forests are cut, rivers polluted, and once ecologically important areas are cemented over to compensate for our rapidly growing population. As the status of our natural world becomes more critical by the year it is important that we look at the driving factors and reasons for this destruction of the natural world. While pollutants and globalization are the driving

The post-apocalyptic subject in the film industry is an area that often thrives at the box office. People thoroughly enjoy watching movies that exhibit Earth’s tarnished environment and humans’ last means of survival. At one point of time or another, the scenes in these once fictional movies may come true

It creates natural disasters that can devastate many, and it can bring simple joys such as food. The Earth is ever moving as "It leans and heartens after it, / And grows erect, as that comes home." (Donne l. 31-32). Despite all this movement of the Earth, humans have made a home of it. Yet it destroys us just as we have destroyed its land and seas. Time and time again, we find that the natural disasters come after us when things are calm. Mankind has done so much to her precious glades and wondrous seas. The death and destruction of man is the Earth's retribution; she creates our rising and returns us to our falling point. And just as the Earth is round, her "firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me end where I begun." (Donne l. 35-36). She returns us to dust when all is said and done. Humans have no room to argue for we have doomed a once stunning planet by all of our wars, greed, and pollutants. Many can argue that love is the most harming factor of life, but Earth is our reason for being and our cause for falling. No words can describe how deep our roots go with the Earth, and despite the Earth building humans together; we only tear each other

  The trouble with the earth today is that humans have become too smart; so smart that they question everything they once took for granted, and being unable to explain it, discount it as unreal. Science, the very thing that has catapulted us into our present state of 'greatness,' is also the human evil that has isolated us from everything we

Chapter one in the book, Human Geography, gives a timeline of the changes that have occurred since the creation of planet Earth. The author, John Rennie Short, explained how truly powerful the earth itself is. It has the ability to wipe out humanity. We often blame nature when natural disasters happen, but perhaps the human race may have something to do with the cause of environmental hazards like volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

The Anthropocene, a new geological epoch sounds new for a lot of people. It is an era which indicates the extreme impact of humankind or human-dominated on the earth. This epoch described by scholars that “Geological Era in which human activity has affected the geological flows and forces to such a degree that one can’t remove humans out of the equation” (qtd Steinmann 7). Scholars suggest that the significant impact of humankind intervention in the environment that accelerate the Anthropocene epoch to the peak contributed through mismanagement of the plastic waste, industrial waste particles dispersed on the planet and the release of carbon monoxide gas from large or small scale industries. Those and other non describes human’s mismanaged human activity on the environment is a reason for the unpredictable climate change, high sea level and other natural disasters all over the earth. All signs of the Antropocene era show that humans are able to destruct the environment or can participate in the developments of the environment.

Industrialization Humans have been compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (National Geographic). The asteroid scientists claimed killed the dinosaurs was abrupt, and the species of the earth had no idea about it (National Geographic). This can be compared to the current situation with human’s industrializing the world. Humans have developed innovative ways in how we get objectives completed. We can freely drive around in vehicles that no one would have ever thought we would have. We have factories and machines that assist in the construction of homes, buildings, and modern society. This affects the killing of the ozone layers and the environment of animals.

Imagine a world where animals ran free, trees and grass covered the earth and the only light came from the sun and the stars. Goodmorning (judges) teachers, staff and students - have you ever wondered: What the earth would be like if humans went extinct? Humans were have said to