The Importance Of Human Action In Breakfast Of Champions And Galapagos

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.

Human activity can negatively impact on the environment in different ways, which can lead to consequences which are not only bad for the environmental area affected, but humans too. Activities such as causing radiation leaks with nuclear meltdowns and dumping waste are just some examples of how humans can worsen their own environment.

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

Since the dawn of mankind, clusters of innovations throughout history have allowed for societal progression at an explosive rate. While primarily fostering a centrifugal system of advancements; humans’ interests in expansion is spiraling out of control. Throughout history elements of collapse can be traced through civilizations and natural resources. Wright’s argument posits humans have hyperextended their utilization of resources at a rate that cannot be replenished, therein by setting up the world for the largest ecological collapse in history (Wright, 2004, pg. 130-131). Due to the cyclical process of past collapse and reformation humans have an advantage to rectify our current consumption rates ultimately avoiding a fate similar to past societies (Wright, 2004, pg. 131). As such Wright’s argument should frame larger discussions of responsible citizenship.

In Appalachia laws had to be passed to keep coal companies from buying mineral rights and forcing people off of their land. If a company had the rights to the minerals under the property, they could mine without consent. It is hard to bear the thought of someone being that ruthless, but greed can drive man to do horrible things. Thankfully, laws were passed that helped the owners of the land, surface owners, to be compensated. The owner of the natural resources, mineral owners, must pay the land owner a royalty for extracting the natural resource from the property. Also, all damages done to the property were covered by the company ("Kentucky Division of Oil and Gas"). A small price to pay for multi-millionaires to increase their vast

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 history on earth, the natural world has been affected. Every environmental impact stems into three basic groups of global problems to nature: Pollution, Habitat loss and Invasive Species. Kolbert explains that each impact can be traced back to one source, human industrial development. With each impact various types of life in the natural world are affected. Deforestation, urbanization, and sea level rise contribute to habitat loss worldwide. When humans began to travel they also brought invasive species and disease along with them; as boats only became bigger more and more invasive species travel. This reverse engineering of the planet species, brings new species that don’t have any natural predators, thus having an easier time driving native species out to endangerment or extinction. The different outcomes that come from human pollution is separated throughout the book, but the idea remains constant; with the development of human culture, pollution has drastically impacted a vast extent of species habitats and their environment.

Many companies have made money from the coal industry; however, the money has not stayed within the state. Big businesses have exploited the resources creating rich executives and leaving the Appalachian area stripped of its bounty. Currently, big businesses are involved in mountain-top removal to remove resources from our mountains. This leaves many of the beautiful mountains destroyed, pollutes the water systems and kills the wildlife and vegetation. The coal industry which once supported many families in the Appalachian area is now becoming the downfall of our tourist

The Earth itself is being neglected and abused by thoughtlessness and waste products of American Feed corporations. There is so much pollution that the atmosphere and Earth are being destroyed. This is a world hit by environmental disasters, the severity of which can only be read between the lines. There can only be synthesized clouds now that the atmosphere will not allow actual clouds to form and is not able to support natural weather patterns. This is a world where living creatures can no longer reproduce without assistance. And this is a world where startling

Coexisting with each of its counterparts, Mother Earth and the system in which we live in effortlessly orchestrates the fundamental basis of not only human existence but nevertheless all of the life in which it contains. The climate of our Earth however, has been continuously changing since the beginning of its formation about 4.5 billion years ago although; it wasn’t until around the early 18th century that a widespread concern occurred in American minds regarding the treatment of our environment. This altered perspective made way for understanding that humans have made the biggest impact to our planet, biosphere, and atmosphere etc. drastically more so than any other organism. It is commonly argued in Jared Diamond’s The Worst Mistake in

In a world that we, as humans, have begun to destroy and shape for the worse, there is still so much that we are oblivious to. From the illegal endangered animal trade to harmful CO2 and methane, Racing Extinction has revealed to both myself and society the constantly ticking clock that is Earth.

The world is being sickened by the needs of man in today's society. People, love to live in luxury without knowing the consequences of their actions. This is because man lives at a pace set by himself, and not one that is naturally set by nature. This is shown excellently in a quote inside of the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Quote states, “the rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.” The Earth is experiencing such rapid and disastrous change due to the wants of man. Man demands too much from the earth and not only is this changing the Earth, but it is also depleting many non renewable resources

Collapse, a novel by Jared Diamond, discusses current and future problems on Earth to warn readers of what is happening around them. Diamond goes into detail about specific societies, and then analyzes its meaning in the final chapter. Using the title “The World as a Polder,” he examines twelve major issues that are expected to worsen in the future. These issues include deforestation, overfishing, loss of diversity of species, loss of soil, growth of the human population, and the effect of more people. The limit on energy, freshwater, and sunlight is also mentioned, as well as the challenges brought up by toxic chemicals, alien species, and atmospheric gases.

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

Planet Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. It is the largest terrestrial planet and is the third planet from the sun. After millions of years of evolution, the once fiery and gassy sphere of particles, volcanos and dust evolved into planet with an atmosphere capable of sustaining life. Humans inhabited the Earth for over 5 million years and modern civilization is approximately 200,000 years old. During our existence humans have evolved along with Earth, and learned to adapt to survive. Humans have become the most dominant living creature and are responsible for many significant changes and developments in the world such as: technological advances, medical research, farming and agriculture that have allowed us to become the civilization we are today. However, according to Clive Hamilton’s, Defiant Earth, humans are also accountable for damaging the ecosystem and changing the entire Earth System so much, “that the Earth has now entered a new geological epoch” known as the Anthropocene (Hamilton,10). Our reckless activity and disregard for other living organisms has brought many negative consequences which include the extinction of wild life, deforestation, ocean acidification, water and air pollution amongst other disasters we can account for. The ancient Greek playwright “The Birds” by Aristophanes, provides a not so comic look at a world where birds mimic the human dominance by taking over their own city and turning on humans and their gods. This essay will refute

The planet Earth could be defined as one small piece to an extremely large puzzle within our Galaxy. With out, the Galaxy would not function in the same way as it does now. Inside our planet are several different resources that are used every day. Whether this is direct use such as drilling for oil, or indirect use such as over grazing our land to feed the animals that will in turn feed humans, the point is the Earth is feeling the effects of it. Some argue that we will never run out of resources, at least not in our lifetime; others believe that we are overusing resources and through this we are minimizing our chances of