Nature is a beautiful location where animals and plants live in unison, being untouched by humans. The human population, however has the ability to take and abuse nature. Carson and Wilson both correctly state that humans see themselves as superior to nature, leading to the eventual deterioration of the environment and its inhabitants. This is displayed through Carson’s thoughts about how humans have contaminated the earth and by Wilsons idea that humans are unknowingly causing destruction to the environment. Additionally, Carson speaks of the effects that contamination has on the nature’s inhabitants and Wilson speaks about the destruction of nature caused by industrialization of society. Carson speaks of how humans have contaminated the
Firstly, the traditional meaning of nature was that God created it for all the living organisms, but basically, through history, people used to think that humans had a central place in it, like a king on his realm. As times has passed, with the industrial revolution, environment has another position in the society, and nowadays, human being is the one responsible for the environment’s change.
The first thing comes to mind when discussing about nature is a pure sanctuary that is untouched, remote, and wild. The general perception will agree that nature is the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of earth, as opposed to humans or human creations. However, there is misconception with the definition. Nature is not merely a wilderness life and transcendent landscape. Are we human also nature? If yes, how do we fit in the scheme of nature? This same question challenges the perception about nature in general.
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 people nowadays also abuse on what nature can provide to them. People are influenced by the western Culture, Man is more powerful and can have dominion over nature and that nature as they see become merely an instrument to satisfy human needs and wants. This kind of thinking or we can say attitude towards nature is called the “Anthropocentric Attitude”. Man reduce the value of nature as it is and it’s important because nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man and that the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental. An opposite thinking would be the Eastern Culture, for they value nature very well and they treat nature being one with them. This thinking or attitude is known as “Ecocentric
The other two readings pretty much encourage humanity to what they want with “nature” to improve society as a whole. What is meant by the term to use “nature” is to use “natural” resources such as trees, water, or animals to name a few in ways to be made into something else that is deemed beneficial in some way. The most common example would have to be trees turned into paper products. “Nature” is described as what one’s landscape is, this could be a savanna or a concrete building while “natural” in its purest form is described as wildlife that has been untouched by humanity for as far as the eye can see. The purpose in which it is used is to show if humans have advanced the “nature” or simply left it alone. It is also used to show how humanity has progressed through time through inventions and changes in the landscape. What is at stake for those who are using the terms all depends on whether they look at those terms with a positive or negative
Edward O. Wilson suggests that humanity should pay attention to our environment. He was concerned about the large extinction of species within a single human generation. He has two reasons as to why we should pay attention to our diverse biosystem, which includes plants and animals. First, some of the species in our environment, large or small can have an economic value and can be used as a source of food or medicine in the future. He put an emphasis on people being ignorant by destroying on what might be a possible cure for cancer or any other disease. The second reason is the annihilation of a vast number of species might lead to the collapse of our ecosystem. For instance, the widespread loss of trees from brush fire or destruction of islands
Nature is an opponent that some will lose against. Nature has an effect on humans, and their well-beings. Most wonder why that in some seasons their emotions change. Humans most often get offend by nature. Humans only expect good from nature. Nature brings sadness, fear, and happiness in humans.
centuries man could not understand or capture. Things lived and died and humans were largely content simply to coexist and marvel and the imperfect nature that Mother Nature had created, until the Germans began to think. During the Enlightenment period when science evolved and man was able to understand and analyze the world around him in new ways, the natural world became a series of equations and formulas that he was destined not only to study but to master. With the Germans forests evolved from a definition of a place that man existed with and enjoyed to a definition of purely utilitarian and transformed from “nature” to “natural resources.” The problem
The connection between nature and humans began at the beginning of creation where early civilization learned farming, irrigation and hunting. In the same way, humans were living in harmony with nature. However, for a long time now, because of the technological revolution, the relationship between humans and their environment decreases.
Drawing upon the readings, the international community and significant figures in the environmental community have no real answer for tension between “humans” and “nature”. Each article or podcast brought a different view to the table. As discussed in the “Conservation in the Anthropocene: Beyond Solitude and Fragility” article, the authors insist that nature has become more of a commercial business. The idea of nature has changed over the years to include long-established human interactions with nature. The humans have built hotels, dams, parks, and imposed laws in nature that have made wilderness less wild and more human constructed. The conservationists have pitted people against nature, causing anger within communities. Therefore, the conservationist
My relationship with nature can only be defined as a place for me to explore God's creation without any judgment. Nature is a place where I can go and forget about my everyday life, a place where there is no responsibility weighing down my shoulders. I can be, do and go where I
Humans have the ability to alter their surroundings and disrupt the balance of nature to a point where an equilibrium may never be reached. So in the definition of nature, human element have no part of it. We will assume that we act as an outside force onto a habitat.
Nature is merely our instrument of conquering one another. By manipulating what already exists, we create everything from nuclear warheads to high speed internet. The continuous competition between men feeds off of our technological advancement—none of which would be possible without the resources Nature provides for us. And rather than being grateful for the unequivicable power so generously offered us by our environment, we instead mock its existence. We distract from the cunningness and cruelty of our efforts toward mankind by relabeling our target ‘Nature’ rather than ‘each other’. By convincing ourselves we are somehow beginning to have Nature within our control and understanding, we forget that Nature is really only the means, not the end of our conquest. We will not be satisfied until we have defeated ourselves. As Lewis puts it, “Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won… But who, precisely, will have won it?” (The Abolition of Man, 421)
The human relationship to the environment has evolved over time as humans have made technological advancements and cultural changes. While some may argue that humanity is distant from nature, that could not be further from the truth. While the human relationship to nature is not the same as it may have been in the past, humans still rely on nature for their livelihood. Humans also have a strong impact on nature, and processes which occur in nature, through their actions.
Since ancient times Nature has served Man giving everything he needs: air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, wood for building and fuel for heating his home. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with the environment and it seemed to them that the resources of nature had no end or limit. With the industrial