consequences, such as: species extinction, reduced forest and coral reefs, drought increases in Africa, severe flooding in Asia, threats to small islands because of ocean levels rising, and severe weather in hurricane zones. Our society today is destroying the climate. Every time we drive our vehicles just to get out of the house for fun or because we forget and have to make a double run, when we run our electric too long, wasting water, burning our trash, especially plastics, and just not taking
this control will only speed up the inevitable destruction of the planet that stems from man’s unrestrained reliance on technology. Humans must instead use technology to eventually leave Earth and start creating sustainable colonies within the solar system and beyond. By all means, humanity’s greatest accomplishment is technology. However, it is also a dangerous, growing tool that is being abused due to the flawed nature of human beings. Daniel Quinn describes man’s world as a paradise that “has
Roderick Nash, an environmentalist and activist, says otherwise. In Nash published an essay, Island Civilization: A Vision For Human Occupancy of Earth in the Fourth Millennium, that clearly shows his negative view in humanity. He discusses the history between humans and
setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced, and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened to the humans from happening to the apes. Orangutans, such as Zaius went to great work as destroying the cave where the evidence
Are Humans Enhancing or Destroying Nature? Earth such an amazing 4 billion year old planet that has such spectacular things to give and show. Also, the planet where we as humans live in with such an amazing nature. Nature is like the most important thing for us because it’s basically the survival system for us. It provides us with water, food, oxygen, and other resources we use everyday in life. So as you can imagine nature does play a big role for us. However
As humans, why do, we feel the need to destroy everything that we see? Why is it that if it does not make us more money than it is not worth it? The Earth, the only planet in our little solar system to contain intelligent life and the only use we can find with that intelligence is to destroy one another and the planet we live on. Ever since the beginning of time humans have only cared about themselves and now that greed is destroying our planet. The pollution of this planet is astronomical, rivers
In the essay “Humans Ought to Use Nature to Serve Their Own Needs,” Tibor R. Machan says humans should use nature for their own wants and feel no guilt or shame about it. He feels that it is okay for human beings to keep destroying the planet with pollution, and the toxic fumes and chemicals that we pump into the air we breathe every day. Machan believes that because human beings are nature themselves, we should be able to use nature however we please and indulge in activities just for our own personal
beauty the Earth prevails, now imagine what the Earth will look like in five to ten years when the human race has destroyed it. The relationship between Earth and humans is similar to a drug addict looking for a quick fix. Humans use nonrenewable resources that are destroying our planet in search for something better. Through the mass production of plastic bags, motor oil and automobiles the planet is being destroyed due to the deterioration of wildlife, contamination of fresh water and pollution
that Earth’s resources are finite. The resources are contained within the boundaries of planet Earth, and are therefore very limited. Many of our resources can be recycled or regenerated, but it takes time for this to happen “The rate in which modern human civilization is using up those resources is faster than they can be naturally regenerated” (Mike Adams Humans vs the Environment). Human activity is destroying the environment. Since we are cutting down the rain forest, this in return is releasing
species has weakened the diversity and sustainability of the ecosystem. Human activity is the leading cause of the high extinction rate of species; about ninety-nine percent of endangered species are at risk due to human activities (biological diversity). However, humans do not think what we are doing to the environment is immoral. Why do humans act like everything we do is morally correct and acceptable? This is because humans believe every action we carry out would benefit our societies and encourage