Contradictions between Human Civilization and Natural Environment and White Noise by Don DeLilo

Pollution has become a serious political issue. Humans that live among nature prevent damaging effects like pollution from occurring because nature is their habitat that they want to protect. This simple difference in lifestyle and in attitude already majorly distinguishes the two groups of humans. Ego is not the only factor in destruction, however. The lack of awareness about the consequences of destruction of nature causes destruction of nature. Well-known consequences like pollution exist, but there are some that are not as obvious. In the Indian fable “Numskull and Rabbit ”, the forest creatures describe how the lion’s murderous nature is not only ending lives, but is also preventing the birth of future lives as a result. An example of this mass destruction is evident in the second image from the movie, where cages full of jailed chickens that are hoarded like they are just objects are about to become poultry for human sustenance . Core principles of evolution state that reproduction of a species is imperative to their survival. If a species has a reduction in population, then the food chain becomes unbalanced, which can impact many species negatively. Humans who live among nature are more aware of their environment and how it impacts their lifestyles, so they are more careful in making sure that they do not injure its natural order. The destruction of nature is caused by simple

“Life...Made better” This is promising the slogan for Dash In convenience stores. It is a promise that stopping at their store will improve your life. It is a promise that you are not lying to yourself every time you step through those glass doors. In the book White Noise by Don Delillo, readers experience the story of this kind of lie and it’s consequences. It follows an introspective college professor and his dealings with his fear of death. It does so against the background of a busy family life, full of colorful characters. White Noise highlights the truths of humanity in a satirical fashion, expertly weaving the American dream into the troubled psyche of the main character, Jack. White Noise reveals that the modern tools of humanity are shallow protections against the reality of life and death.

Unlike most of the persuasive essays needed many “power” words to persuade readers, R. Crumb’s comic, “A Short History of America”, reflects the change of the natural, ecological landscape to urban area without using any words. Nevertheless, his drawing deeply shows us the down side of the urbanization and we human-being are destroying our indispensable nature. We are going the exact opposite direction to a better life; we are going to live in the life where we totally rely on technology and advanced, luxurious materials. Humans will never be satisfied and keep changing. However, while we’re keeping changing, have we ever asked: What are we doing to our nature?

“Life...Made better”, this is promising the slogan for Dash In convenience stores. It is a promise that stopping at their store will improve your life. It is a promise that you are not lying to yourself every time you step through those glass doors. In the book White Noise by Don DeLillo, readers experience the story of this kind of lie and it’s consequences. The story follows an introspective college professor and his dealings with his fear of death. It does so against the background of a busy family life, full of colorful characters. White Noise highlights the truths of humanity in a satirical fashion, expertly weaving the American dream into the troubled psyche of the main character, Jack. White Noise reveals that the modern tools of

The following quote reveals the outcome and effect of modifying creations made by mother nature, “sinkholes broke out, opening in people’s backyards, full of hot steam and carbon monoxide” (Briceno); proving that modifying establishments made by nature can injure humanity. The people living in the area were killed or had their personal belongings destroyed. Also, not so long ago, Mexico suffered a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that destroyed several of people’s homes and unfortunately killed hundreds of people. Nonetheless, the author is trying to confirm that this all goes back to us to the people. We contribute to the environments global warming that leads to certain

Don DeLillo's award-winning novel White Noise takes the idea of the supremacy of false images to the extreme. Through various scenarios, such as the airborne toxic event and the Dylar dilemma, DeLillo critiques contemporary society's over-dependence on false images. The characters in the novel that exemplify this over-dependence appear humorous on one hand, yet tragic on the other. The humor comes from the novel's characters behaving like cartoon characters who continually get hurt, but keep coming back for more. The novel's characters keep getting hurt by false images, yet continue to believe in them, causing the reader to smack his or her head in astonishment.

In these urban areas, natural gases such as carbon dioxide are released warming Earth even more than before. Although these urban environments like megacities are creating lifestyles for humans to live in, they are also creating climate changes and biodiversity affecting the environment in the South Pole. Wall-E’s environment portrays Earth as dry, dusty, lifeless and a smoggy atmosphere. Through these observations, many can see the destruction that humanity has done to Earth especially through companies like Buy ‘n’ Large. In addition, the fact that there is little to no water at all on Earth in the film displays one of the effects of urban environments reducing the amount of water while increasing the amount of droughts. Not to mention, urban areas also contain concentrated energy areas which leads to the inference that these areas also have negative effects on human and animal health, therefore causing the people in the film to

Don DeLillo's novel White Noise demonstrates how most people of this time will have complete faith in information, 'experts' or products given to them from unknown sources, but will distrust their own judgment and knowledge. Throughout Don DeLillo's novel, characters will doubt their own judgments and thoughts. These characters

Death is probably the most feared word in the English language. Its undesired uncertainty threatens society’s desire to believe that life never ends. Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise tells the bizarre story of how Jack Gladney and his family illustrate the postmodern ideas of religion, death, and popular culture. The theme of death’s influence over the character mentality, consumer lifestyle, and media manipulation is used often throughout DeLillo’s story.

The environmental catastrophes that occur in both set the stage for a continuous downfall. In White Noise, Jack’s alternative reality is portrayed as the vibrant sunsets and his big

“The world…is crowded, not necessarily with occupants and not at all with memorable experiences, but with happenings; it is a ceaseless flow of seductive trivialities which invoke neither reflection, nor choice but instant participation.” (Oakeshott) The idea of the lacking of realness is one of the major themes carried out throughout the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, especially through the device of the television.

The decline of the environment due to natural and human exertion is known as the degradation of the environment. The natural weather occurrences such as heavy rain, flooding, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. are not administered under human control. These meteorological phenomenon’s wreak devastation on the environment from time to time causing the land to become unsuitable to cultivate. On this subject matter, the human population does not contain the power to stop the wrath of Mother Nature. Rather, we are forced to sit back and watch. Nevertheless, humans engage in a crucial role towards the degradation of the environment in which we live in. Unavoidably, the degradation of the environment is a rising and utmost worldwide subject. I accept that the root cause to environmental degradation is the excessive use of resources on our land utilized by the processes under capitalism. As Jensen wrote in Endgame, “The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human and (nonhuman) impoverishment.

What do the ozone layer and glaciers have in common? They’re both going to disappear! Funny, right? Yeah, not really. Unfortunately, it’s true. Pollution is at an all-time high and the effects are being seen everywhere: from the extinction of animals around the world to the disappearing of natural resources. Animals aren’t the only things dying because of pollution. According to Fabio Caiazzo, professor of Aviation and the Environment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, air pollution is responsible for approximately 200,000 premature deaths in the United States (Caiazzo, 198). Humans are no longer merely killing animals and the world, we are killing each other. Not only that, but we have adopted a new form of torture—taking away the one thing that makes each person an individual: the mind.

In the decades after City of Joy was published, the world’s focus on climate change and sustainable living increased greatly. People started to look to the future and realize the actual costs of a rapidly changing world. The World Bank report called, “Turn Down the Heat” reports on new research related to climate change and alayses the impacts and risk to developing countries. Lapierre’s novel certainly does not tackle an issue like climate change explicitly, but he does show nature to have a large effect on people’s lives, and several natural disasters in the City of Joy have only increased in frequency since the book was written. Most importantly, City of Joy displays the “impacts and risks” section of the World Bank report, as the effects of climate cut deep to exacerbate many of the development problems in Anand Nagar.

Environmental problems are something which belongs to nature or known as “Mother Earth” [13]. Nature was created to help people survive from gathering foods until build a house. This phenomenon happens continuously without thinking how much damage that nature has because human’s fault. Nature gradually becomes worse and animal’s life in danger. People who are aware of the importance of nature react. Those people do several ways to save the environment. Although these efforts can return back the environment, these efforts only can be hold temporarily. This problem happens because those people who are aware of the environment only slightly; for remaining, there are people either do not know or do not care about the nature. People’s efforts