Our Physical And Ecological Environment That Shapes Our Society And Culture

“The modern form of the word environment comes from an older word that we hardly use anymore: environ, to surround, to form a ring around, to encircle” (Stoll 3). The meaning of the word environment did not become a major factor in the lives of humanity until 1945. The tragic events that led to the end of World War II sparked a chief movement in history: American Environmentalism. Global decision-making changed as well as human unity due to the mere purpose that fate of all people and the environment became intertwined (Stoll 1). I will further discuss the dramatic attempts made by some Americans to bring the importance of preserving our environment to the surface to show if and how we have evolved.

Before diving into the essay, much content on environmental vocabulary, language, and theory is needed to understand the scope and magnitude of the thesis. Firstly, the phrase ‘natural world’, for all contexts and purposes of this essay, the phrase will mean the world outside of human’s domain. Secondly, the difference between the tiers of nature, environmental, and ecological realms. Nature will mean once

It will influence the future generations to why we consider environment has been important, create opportunities for generation to come, a culture that can be passed on and sense of appreciation of such an experience (Singer, 2011). This point may not so readily apply to a wider consequentialist approach, which attributes intrinsic value not only to pleasure or satisfaction, but also to various objects and processes in the natural environment (Singer, 2011).

The audience of this book is presumed to be the general person who is not fully intact with the ideas that he or she is disrupting the ecosystem and is not aware of the effects they are doing as a whole. The book argues that no ecosystem is completely inert as things such as climate changes or drought can also affect the enviorment. Without human interaction an environment can still have issues, but the introduction of human life and economy does take a grave toll on the climate. These are irreversible effects that mankind are doing to the ecosystem. The English

Schwinning, Susan. “Sensitivity of the Colorado Plateau to changes: Climate, ecosystems, and society.” Ecology and Society, vol. 13, no. 2, 2008,

The Western world is the dominant society with specific parameters for modernity, which understands nature-people relationships from a perspective that is grounded on human domination over the environment. Nature is regarded as a provider of resources (e.g. oil, timber, cupper, rubber, etc.) for the profit and greed of a market-based economy that seeks infinite development. Consequently, the human-nature relationships are subject-object, implying

The environment can be described as all those elements, both the living and the non-living that surrounds us. The environment can also refer to the condition within which individuals, animals and plants lives. Mankind has a role to play in the environment, which mainly concerns taking care of the environment as well as improving it. Since, we as human beings are different from animals as we have a gift consciousness, we have an obligation of being improvers of the environment through ensuring that we observe environmental consciousness and that we avoid all those practices that negatively affects the environment and cause ecological crisis and problems. This essay will use the article “Towards a Buddhist Environmental Ethics” by Rita M Gross to help in the answering of the question “What is our appropriate role in relation the environment?” The essay will additionally look into the concept of ‘deep ecology’ by Bill Devall and George Sessions to get a deeper understanding of the ecology and our relationship with it, a concept that will help us to be in a better position to answer our appropriate role concerning the environment.

It mentions asocial and social nature, and writes about instead of being them morally and experientially opposite, and that instead they are two overlapping versions of experience that similarly allow for great appreciation of society and nature.

Society and the natural world are intimately related. The state of the natural world has been recognised throughout history as crucial for human survival. More recently we have noticed that, to some extent, the state of the natural world is dependent on us. By ‘society’ I refer to any collection of ‘modern’ humans (not drastically genetically dissimilar to humans living today) living together, connected by common needs or aims.

In the ecological prospect, the people and environment are considered as a part of a single unit and both of them configures each other. In this approach,

Habitats that contain an environmental gradient, such as the Henderson Levee, attribute to a diverse speciation of plants. There are multiple factors that determine the assortment of species along a disturbance gradient, including competition and the availability of nutrients, water, and light. This paper focuses on the differences in diversity and composition of species in response to an environmental gradient. Three parallel transects were measured along the Henderson Levee and the stems for each species of plants were counted within sampling intervals along those transects. Statistics were used to calculate diversity and to determine how the species changed along the gradient. The diversity of plant species was determined to be highest at the top of the levee for transects 1 and 3 and highest at the bottom of the levee for transect 2.

Ecology is akin to love. Love is a concept of acceptance, love is the ability to see beyond the rights and wrongs, and love is not meant to stand on a pedestal. Correspondingly, countless of aspects revolve around ecology and its nature. Frequently, people chop down trees for construction and see it as a benefit to society, but people often forget the negative impacts that society falls into once these trees fall. Identically, there are several misconceptions about waste and trash; for instance, waste decomposes, but trash does not. In “Examined Life,” the continental philosopher Slavoj Zizek further discusses the principles of ecology and how Modern Day America conceptualize it.

The concept of a continuum of material and ideational relations between humanity and its environment requires a nuanced approach which avoids generalizations. I theorize that one cannot argue the greater importance of either the material of ideational aspect without making dangerous assumptions. While some scholars may theorize that it is mankind's religious and ethical worldviews which shape the environment, there is also strong evidence supporting the idea of humanity's technologies and surroundings affecting religious and ethical systems. It is necessary, therefore, to acknowledge the fact of each extreme effecting the other. The material world affects the ideational and the ideational affects the material. Before concluding this

Nearly everything that a human does is in response to the environment. Our lives are defined by what is around us and what we find in front of us, whether this means accepting, dealing with or changing it. This has been the pattern since primates first stood up and became Homo erectus, and has continued until we considered ourselves doubly wise. The shape of the land affected where humans moved. Weather was something with which to contend. Fire affected humans until they conquered it – and herein lies the core of the relationship. The earth affects humans, and humans affect it back, viewing characteristics and patterns as problems and challenges, and finding a solution.

The natural environment and the most important advantages is all that is beyond human entity, and all that surrounds it of assets, The air he breathes and the water we drink, and the land on which dwells upon and farmed, and its surroundings from living organisms or from inanimate are the elements of the environment in which they live, a framework that exercise in which the various activities. The most important characteristic of the natural environment is a delicate balance between the various elements, and if there has been any change of some sort in one of these environments has avoid natural conditions after a period of effects of this change, Examples include the renewal of nature trees after fire destroys the areas of forest, this the balance between the constituent elements of the so-called environment (ecological balance) and any change to the elements of the environment undesirable result of human activities, which cause damage to human health and the living beings is environmental pollution.The causes of pollution of the environment are produced overpopulation in many major cities damage. Busy streets have been unable, and power plants and water purification plants, and sewage plants and other to